Pocket pc windows registry landscape

By using a Compact Cleaner regularly and fixing registry errors your your system's performance will improve without expensive hardware upgrades. Compact Cleaner will scan your entire registry for any invalid entries and provides a list of the registry errors found, you can then choose to selectively clean each item or automatically repair them all.

For your convenience and protection Compact Cleaner can also make a backup of any repairs made so that you can easily recover any changes if required. Mobile and Compact Cleaner needs the. This is excellent information. Works like a charm. Any idea how to get proper icons for all the missing stuff like start menu and other icons?

BMP msim. I just read a great article on registry and PC optimization at Ezine articles. This article is a good one for Pocket PC optimization.

Hasn't been updated in a long time. Document, HTML, and image viewer with compression. Strength lies in its HTML conversions with preserved hyperlinking and its handling of tables. Documents are compressed, formatted nicely, and with preserved fonts, etc.

I use its scheduling feature to download the news automatically every morning. It's databases can be read on both the Palm and PPC platforms. Lexionary - Shareware by Revolutionary Software Front. Nice and compact implementation of the WordNet lexical database. The taxonomy icons, while saving space, make the program a bit difficult to learn quickly.

But it does work well. Nice implementation of Wikipedia for the PPC with over , articles. Available with a standard MB database truncated to use only the executive overviews from each article, or the full MB database if your card can handle it. Interface is very simple but it gets the job done, and lookup on an SD card is pretty quick. Loaded on the SD card. Magic Button - Freeware by TranCreative.

Excellent task manager that puts icons for all running programs on the title bar. It also fixes Microsoft's "minimize" behavior on the X button and allows some additional customization of the title bar.

I think that it has compatibility issues with some software, but haven't nailed that down yet. Although I have several task managers available, this one is my favorite. Simply tapping on icons on the title bar to swap apps can quickly become addictive.

Also has a nice battery monitor for the title bar. I tried Magic Button, but it looks strange and needs to be updated for WM 6. However, it does function correctly. Outstanding programmable, scientific, RPN calculator patterned after the classic Hewlett-Packard lines which I've used for decades. The screen is such that you can actually use it by "pressing" the individual keys.

Creative Creek also makes a non-programmable version for less money. Currently in beta for the PPC platform, it has a ways to go to catch up with its Palm sibling, but I still love the format and implementation. Excellent program for downloading and reading news.

It downloads whole articles, has an online catalog, and loads very quickly. I use it every day. Retrieves monthly medical news. Offered for install with Skyscape products. Nice medical calcuator. Excellent soft keyboard replacement for the Pocket PC. The command button provides the most-used OS functions copy, cut, paste, command, shortcut, undo at your stylus tip.

Concentrated, well planned keyboard enables minimal hand movement, and tons of punctuation and symbols are readily accessible. Works perfectly in portrait mode AND landscape. Exideas offers a generous day trial period on the PPC. This is one of the first apps that I installed on my Axim! Disabled for now. MetrO - Freeware by F. Slick program that provides directions to get from one location to another using public transportation in a host of the world's cities.

Very nicely excuted interface, quick searching, good use of color, and accurate directions make it a snap to use. Databases are updated regularly. Great program for travelers. Very nice music player that also has an alarm feature. The alarm let's you wake up to your favorite music.

Great English dictionary, thesaurus, phrase list, and acronym reference. It sports a very attractive interface and is simple to use. The dictionary has concise, informative definitions, and the thesaurus is very helpful in discerning the nuances between similar words.

As good as these are, the real star of this collection may be the English phrase database. Don't be fooled by the name--it explains a number of common latin phrases and formal names, as well as colloquial expressions. Almost all other PDA dictionaries use a reduced version of Princeton's WorldNet lexicon, which is really a sophisticated thesaurus-like psychological language learning project and makes a less than exemplary dictionary even in full PC form.

See my more detailed comments on this database here. I compared a number of popular dictionary programs before settling on MSDict, whose demo is time-limited, full function software. Mobile Systems' support proved very helpful, promptly answering questions and concerns before I registered. Installed on my SD card. Looks great in native VGA mode. Web pages on your PPC look just like on your desktop, or you can wrap them to fit the screen.

If you surf the web with your PPC, you should take a serious look at Netfront. Very nice collection of English idioms searchable on key works in each idiom. Excellent reference if you want to get it just right. Also available as part of an Oxford Reference Suite.

See my review here. Super utility to put your X50v into true VGA x display mode. Allows you to customize your font and control sizes and even make registry changes to support different configurations. Works great, but not all apps support true VGA. PhatNotes 5. It stores notes as a Windows Mobile database on your handheld, handles categories beautifully, supports rich formatting, and is fully supported by WebIS' Pocket Informant PhatNotes also has a nice Today plug-in that works great under PocketBreeze as a custom tab.

Pretty slick setup. Nice add-in to the stock Pocket Internet Explorer that adds things like multiple windows, landscape support, full screen mode, etc. While it doesn't make full use of the Axim's VGA screen, it operates far more reliably than Netfront.

Super Today screen utility that puts your calendar and tasks on the Today screen. Highly customizable and actively supports Pocket Informant and Agenda Fusion. Newer versions support a custom tab, which is where I keep my weather information, plus will display daily forecasts from PocketWeather 2.

Pocket Chemistry - Now free from Ra Software. Nice chemistry reference with lots of data on the elements of the Periodic Table. Currently testing this for use as my standard alarm clock.

Plays wavs from anywhere on your device. Outstanding Personal Information Manager with which to organize your life. More full-featured than MS Outlook itself, with which it is fully compatible. Great ease-of-use that belies the incredible power beneath.

Manage your calendar, tasks, contacts, and notes all in one app that supports seemingly endless customizability. Also has a nice feature to force Windows to update all alarms for those time when Windows inevitably starts missing them.

The longer I use this, the deeper I fall under its spell. Great implementation of the standard English dictionary. Includes etymology, pronunciation, deriviatives, usage, and even related concepts for some words.

The Normal , Double and Triple Size options magnify the image by a constant factor, while the Maximum Size option used in Full Screen mode determines the largest magnification factor that will fit on the screen. Periscope Menu Windowed and Full Screen In some situations it is convenient to have the Smartphone or Pocket PC screen displayed in a window on the PC, so that other programs can be viewed and operated simultaneously.

This is possible using Periscope's Windowed option. During most presentations, however, it is more visually appealing to have the image displayed Full Screen which enables projection of the Pocket PC at Maximum Size and with high contrast.

When in the Windowed mode, the Periscope window can be set Always on Top , to prevent it from becoming hidden behind other windows, such as a PowerPoint presentation. Periscope provides Save to File as. The copied image can be pasted into an image editing program. In some situations when demonstrating using a Smartphone or Pocket PC, its more convenient to use a standard mouse and keyboard to interact with the software, rather than the touch screen. Periscope makes this possible using Interactive Mode.

When Interactive Mode is enabled via the popup menu, mouse clicks and key-presses within the Periscope window will be transmitted to the Windows Mobile device, which will interpret them as taps to the screen and character input. Note that only left-clicks are transmitted, and thus right-clicking can still be used to display the Periscope popup menu.

Remote Control When performing a presentation it is most convenient to control everything from a wireless Windows Mobile Smartphone or Pocket PC that can be carried about, rather than having to directly 'hands on' interact with a fixed laptop or desktop PC. The pop up menu from the Periscope icon presents options for control of the display of the Pocket PC screen when projected on or from a desktop or laptop PC.

Display Mode on the Periscope menu presents a sub menu with five PowerPoint presentation options , for maximum control, see opposite. Where buttons are available, the presentation can be run by using the left and right hardware buttons.