EDIT: The following post is a registry tweak to store the Pocket Internet Explorer data on your Mini-SD card instead of the internal storage. It currently results in a PocketIE error where it crashes and closes immediately after loading a page. Clearing the data using the options in PocketIE solves the problem temporarily.

ok here's what i've figured out...
(i suggest backing up your registry before changing anything, as always)

find this key:

HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Shell Folders\

3 values are here:

\Windows\Profiles\Guest\History
\Windows\Profiles\Guest\Cookies
\Windows\Profiles\Guest\Temporary Internet Files


Create a folder on your storage card for all three and edit the values above:

I used:

\Storage Card\My Documents\IE\History
\Storage Card\My Documents\IE\Cookies
\Storage Card\My Documents\IE\Temporary Internet Files

After doing this, I ran PocketIE and browsed a few websites and it appears that the temporary files are now being stored on my storage card! Let me know how this works for you...

you should be able to clear your Windows\Profiles\Guest folder now...it had been saving my gmail login/pw and when i changed the registry to bounce it to the storage card, it no longer remembered...so it's not using these folders anymore.

My last question would be about the folder \Windows\Temporary Internet Files\Content.IE5 - but that folder, for me, appears to be only taking about 20kb.

good luck...let me know how this works for you guys.

edit: i just found that, after making these changes, if you go to clear your temporary internet files through pocketIE, it will clear the storage card folders...if you want to clear your windows/profiles folder (which you should, to get all that space back), either do it before making these changes, or do a soft reset and use file explorer to delete the files right afterwards.

-jeff

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PPC 6700 is now my TV remote control and favorite paperweight lol

here is a nice guide to tuning your SD card for the best performance

http://pocketpcmag.com/forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=17921

Here's the fix zen mentioned from the IE on PPC 6700 thread. Just to save you some time, you can't edit the file in pocket word unless you use Resco File Explorer (or some other utilty with the same functionality).

Update:
Someone else on that thread mentioned that editing the file by browsing to it while it is synced from your desktop computer should work. This may be true, but it looks like it is not easily done without some tweaking.


-Eric

So I did the following hacks from this thread:

1. Moved IE cache/history/cookies to storage card
2. Changed FATFS cache to 4MB
3. Changed GLYPHCACHE to 16MB

After making these changes, IE would just quit when connecting to web pages. First it happened intermittenly. Then with more frequency to the point where IE wouldn't launch the home page before crashing. Turning off view images helped a little, but not much.

I reversed the FATFS cache back to 0, and that helped to the point where I could get the first page, but if I tried to navigate to a link, IE would quit.

I reversed the glyphcache and now all is well. No quitting.

There was a bit of a speed up overall fromthose two hacks, but the loss of IE was unacceptable for the tiny speed-up I saw.

This is just my experience. YMMV.

chance

Because of the way WM5 works with memory, when you change the registry, the change is made in RAM and then saved to ROM. If you do a soft reset to fast (before it is written to ROM), the changes will not be saved and will be lost. My guess is this is what is happening to you. I always wait a few minutes before a reset and I don't use the reset hole (I use a software reboot program).

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HTC Fuze

This is a bug with putting your IE cache on the card. put it back into main memory and all will be well. the other two cache mods have nothing to do with it.

yes they have to be wav

Notes/Menu/Options/Save to:/Storage Card.

It will only sync the Notes you keep in the main memory, not the SD card. I keep notes that I'm continually updating in my main memory and stuff I just need to access once in a while (read not change) on my storage card.

Don't know of an easy way to do the same with Tasks but I wouldn't recommend it anyway since Tasks should be small in footprint and relatively transient, IMO.

I don't know if anybody has ever posted this, but I thought it was pretty cool. I couldn't find any other way to do this.

I was wanting to use Voice Command to open a specific web site. For example I wanted to say "Open Weather" and it would go straight to my local forecast on www.weather.com.

To do it I:
1. Opened internet explorer, found my local forecast and saved it as a favorite.
2. Opened Windows Explorer and copied the internet shortcut I had created from the Windows\Favorites folder and pasted it in the Windows\Start Menu\Programs folder.
3. I renamed the shortcut to "Weather"

I can now use Voice Command to go directly to my forecast. Obiously this could be done with any website I visit on a regular basis (like ORB). I suppose if I create enough my programs folder will look pretty full, but with Voice Command I don't really care so much.

Sorry if this is common knowledge, but I searched everywhere on this forum and couldn't find anything on creating internet shortcuts.

If you're like me, you've noticed the battery door/cover on the back of the phone has a tendency to slide off with a bit of a push. No lock (DUH-MB!) to keep it on until you take out off.

While Egrips help to keep your phone from flying out of your hand, they can actually keep your battery door/cover from sliding off and becoming lost. Like mine did recently.

I discovered it was missing Wednesday morning before I went on duty. I looked all over my station, my ambulance, the vehicle bay, the employee parking lot, the offices, etc. I even looked all over my car. I spent all day Wednesday without it. I came home last night and looked all over the house. It wasn't until this morning I made one more search of the car and found it way under the driver seat! (don't ask...I don't know how) Thank GOD the battery stays sungly in its compartment!

While the battery door/cover does have a tendency to slide off, an IMPROPERLY PLACED Egrip sticker enhances the possibility of it coming off.

HERE'S THE SIMPLE SOLUTION:

When placing one of the two biggest pieces from the Egrips pack onto the back of the phone, make DARN sure the top end is just below the camera lens (almost 1/3rd of the sticker), on the other side of the crack separating the battery door/cover from the phone body. Of course, the rest of the Egrip piece will fall onto the battery door/cover.

Now it appears the battery door/compartment doesn't go ANYWHERE.

The only problem with this is immediate access to the battery. How often do we need that? Probably next to never, unless the battery croaks.

Do I worry about the Egrip sticker wearing out the Sprint PCS logo on the back? Hell no. Heaven knows how much a replacement battery door/cover costs and how hard it might be to obtain.

This should be pretty self explanatory but if anyone needs an example pic, let me know. I'm sure some of you have already figured this out, but I thought I'd share it as a bit of hindsight which may help others unwary of the battery door/cover weakness.

I used this method and it worked great.

"Pocket Internet Explorer Undercover as Internet Explorer 6.0!
Disguise your version of Pocket Internet Explorer Internet Explorer 6.0 running on Windows XP!

Many web sites that require encryption (such as banks and online retailers) don't verify if your browser support high encryption, they just check the browser version.

This registry hack will make Pocket Internet Explorer identifies itself as Internet Explorer 6.0 running on Windows XP, which may let you connect to web site that check the browser version

NOTE - This hack will prevent web sites that provide Pocket PC specific content to be able to know you're actually using a Pocket PC.

Browse to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\
Windows\CurrentVersion\Internet Settings\User Agent \
Change the default value from "Mozilla/2.0" to "Mozilla/4.0".
Change the "Version" value from "MSIE 3.02" to "MSIE 6.0".
Change the "Platform" value from "Windows CE" to "Windows NT 5.1".
Some web sites may just compare the user agent string, but if this is not enough, browse to the Post Platform\ sub key and delete the "240x320" value that specifies screen size.
Pocket PC Registry Editors (Free!)
For a free registry editor for the Pocket PC, take a look at the PHM Registry Editor at http://www.phm.lu/Products/PocketPC/RegEdit/, or make life easier and check out RegKing (http://www.cewindows.net/applications/regking.htm) or Tweaks2k2 (http://www.pc-counselor.8m.com/downloads.htm) - these will carry out the tweaks for you!"

Now what I need is a way to make PIE works with the pop up boxes on my MLS website. I can log in now with the above hack but I can't fully utilize the sit. For example I have to input an area code. I can type the area code into the box provided but then I have to hit a box that says"add area code" and when I click add it just sits there. Any ideas??? Is it a scripting issue??


edit: PS- when I click on the same box on IE on my laptop the bottom left of screen right above "Start" button first briefly displays a "http://xxxxxx.xxxxxxx.com/prop_search.asp" message and after I click on it the message displayed is "javascript:DoSearch(document.mainform,%201);".

Any ideas on how to get this type of thing to work in PIE? Can I just change the javascript values in the registry??

Thanks!

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Same here. Worked for 1-2 weeks and then it became a major pain. Now I just delete my cash when ever I feel like it to save space. I find IE works a lot faster too.

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Found a great little program that's free and doesn't do anything. Let me explain-There's been a few people complaining, me too, that the virtual keyboard will often keep popping up and getting in the way when you don't need to be typing anything. Download NullKeyboard and it put adds a choice in the list of available input devices. It's a keyboard that doesn't do anything. More importantly it never pops up. When you actually need a virtual keyboard just pick something else.

Front Button Tips:
-To allow buttons to turn device on: Go to settings-personal tab-buttons-lock tab this will allow you to change settting

IE button (on side):
- press and hold will launch wireless manager
-Set IE button to go to the right default page
In the \windows\appbuttons folder you'll see an "Internet Explorer.lnk" file. If open the file using Word mobile it contains:
28#"\Windows\iexplore.exe"
\windows\default.htm
Edit the file so that it just says:
28#"\Windows\iexplore.exe"
Close Word mobile, kill any running instance of IE and restart it using the hardware button. Should work now. (Need Resco File Explorer to do this or similair ie Total Commander)

SoftPower button:
- Press and hold and it will turn back light off, press and hold and turns backlight back on or dims.

Volume slider adjustments:
- settings-personal tab- buttons-up/dn controls

Voice Command Buttons
- Set IE launcher to do the ALT TAB switching with SPB.
- ALTERNATIVE: Use the record button for VC

Registry editors
-PHM Regedit
- Regeditce http://www.freewareppc.com/utilities/regeditce.shtml
- Regking (http://www.cewindows.net/applications/regking.htm)

Registry links
Here is a link to many PPC registry hacks. (will add)

Vision duration (see how long you are connected to vision & disconnect button)
- Click HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE
-Click ControlPanel
- Click Phone
- [at this point, the buttom grey status bar should read \HKLM\ControlPanel\Phone'
- Click the bottom menu 'edit'
- Select new dword value
- Change the value name to "Flags2" (no quotes).
- Select the 'hexidecimal' button.
- Type 10
- Click ok.
- You should now see in the 'name/data' section:
- Flags2 16 (0x00010)
- When done, reset the device.

Speedup GLYPHCACE
-Note - users have had issues with this tweak
1. Open your registry editor o_n your Pocket PC
2. Navigate to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\GDI\GLYPHCACHE\
3. Change the value of 'limit' from 8192 to 32768
4. Close registry editor and soft reset.

Keyboard Leds
-HKEY_Current_User, then go to Control Panel, then to Backlight, then at the bottom you'll see a key that says QKEYLED TIMEOUT.
- Modify that key and change the D Word from 10 to whatever seconds you want. I have mine set for 60. After you make your change click ok, then do a soft reset. It works for me! 60 seconds seems to be for me the best setting, 10 seconds was way to short. Hope this helps!

Always on Internet (Vision) - users have issues with this - beware. (FYI does not work with vision duration edit above)
-Change the "AlwaysOn" dword value from "0" to "1";
- -- You may be asked for your Vision ID/PW. Just leave blank.
- -- Warm Reset
- HKEY_lOCAL_MACHINE\Comm\ConnMgr\Providers\{7C4B7A38-5FF7-4bc1-80F6-5DA7870BB1AA}\Connections\Sprint PCS Vision]
-"AlwaysOn"=dword:00000001
- "RequirePw"=dword:00000001
- "ConnectionGUID"="{8956986C-8ABE-ECBF-D48F-57F7DD6A7E6A}"
- "SecureLevel"=dword:00000000
- "Secure"=dword:00000000
- "Enabled"=dword:00000001
- "EntryType"=dword:00000000
- "DestId"="{F079757F-9357-4000-8305-9CA6B9B6CAEC}"

Moving PIE cache to SD card
Note: Some note this tweak results in a PocketIE error where it crashes and closes immediately after loading a page. Clearing the data using the options in PocketIE solves the problem temporarily.

- (i suggest backing up your registry before changing anything, as always)
- find this key:
-HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Shell Folders\
- 3 values are here:
- \Windows\Profiles\Guest\History
- \Windows\Profiles\Guest\Cookies
- \Windows\Profiles\Guest\Temporary Internet Files
- Create a folder on your storage card for all three and edit the values above:
- I used:
- \Storage Card\My Documents\IE\History
- \Storage Card\My Documents\IE\Cookies
- \Storage Card\My Documents\IE\Temporary Internet Files
- After doing this, I ran PocketIE and browsed a few websites and it appears that the temporary files are now being stored on my storage card! Let me know how this works for you...
- you should be able to clear your Windows\Profiles\Guest folder now...it had been saving my gmail login/pw and when i changed the registry to bounce it to the storage card, it no longer remembered...so it's not using these folders anymore.
- My last question would be about the folder \Windows\Temporary Internet Files\Content.IE5 - but that folder, for me, appears to be only taking about 20kb.
- good luck...let me know how this works for you guys.
- Note: isome say, after making these changes, if you go to clear your temporary internet files through pocketIE, it will clear the storage card folders...if you want to clear your windows/profiles folder (which you should, to get all that space back), either do it before making these changes, or do a soft reset and use file explorer to delete the files right afterwards.
Additional note:
- tweaks2k2 has a tweak to change your registry type from HIVE to a file. so you wont run into these problems.

Make PIE look like version 6.0 (advert security check on websites) (Note: This can cause content problems. Esp. with video streams. You will get the following errors - Cannot play the file. The file is either corrupted or the Player does not support the format you are trying to play".)
- Browse to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\
- Windows\CurrentVersion\Internet Settings\User Agent \
- Change the default value from "Mozilla/2.0" to "Mozilla/4.0".
- Change the "Version" value from "MSIE 3.02" to "MSIE 6.0".
- Change the "Platform" value from "Windows CE" to "Windows NT 5.1".
- Some web sites may just compare the user agent string, but if this is not enough, browse to the Post Platform\ sub key and delete the "240x320" value that specifies screen size.

Setting MP3/WMA/WAV for rings tones
- Add media files into "\Windows\Rings\" folder
- or
-Use File Explorer and click and hold on media file and select "Set as Ringtone"
- They will now be available in the phone preference section as well as the contact ringtone section.
- Recommendation: Use only 15-20 second long clips for ringtones to save space.

Setting WMA/WAV for alerts
- Add WAV files into "\Windows\" Folder
- They will now be available in the Settings>Sounds and Notifications section.
- Recommendation: Use only 5-20 second long clips for Alerts to save space.

Avoid notification slow downs
- Fix that problem with Scary Bears Check Notifications. It has a utility that will check for and delete the duplicates. There is also a utility to check and delete duplicates at startup. I noticed a nice improvement with this program.
- Or try:
for those who hates the "Message Sent" notification after sending an SMS, this is the steps to remove the bubble notification...this is the STEP by STEP method to do it in case some of you guys dont get it right...
1. First, you will need to download a Registry Editor to help you do it...
a good one will be the freeware PHM Registry Editor
or for those who got the Resco Explorer, you can use the Registry Editor that comes with it...
2. using the Registry Editor, navigate to: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Inbox
3. Next, click on Inbox (make sure the Inbox is highlighted) and select Edit, New Key
4. Name the New Key as "Settings"
5. Click on "Settings" (make sure the Settings is highlighted) and select Edit, New String Value
6. On "Value name:", key in SMSNoSentMsg and in "Value data", key in 1
7. Soft reset your device and test it with one SMS, and you will notice that the SMS Sent bubble is being disabled

Audible and Action Engine
- Using your computer or PPC, cruise on over the the Program Files section of your handheld. Next select the folders of Audible and Action Engine. Delete them.
- Next, go to the "\Windows\Start Menu\Programs\" Folder and delete the shortcuts to those programs.

SPB Pocket Plus & Resco File Explorer
- SPB Pocket Plus and Resco File Explorer are both awesome programs. Both have plugins that can reside on the Today screen.
- both are EXTREME memory hogs tho, especially if you run both at the same time. unless you need to run the today screen plugins, i recommend you disable them in the Settings>Today>Items screen.

Clearing cache to improve space
When in IE: Menu...Tools...Options. Then hit the "Memory" tab and the "Delete Files" button.

Moving Notes to SD card (will no longer sync correctly)
- Notes/Menu/Options/Save to:/Storage Card.

Unwanted keypress
-Mortsaverpe-2.0 (if put soft-power button while on phone and using BT headset, unit will come back on at end of call. If in holster this often results in you calling the person back and them eves dropping on you! I assume this program makes sure this doesn't happen!)
- SD card turning improvments
http://pocketpcmag.com/forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=17921
Remove Speedtest files
- If you're running a bunch of moblie speed tests, read this!
- Some using Sprite's Space Detective to see how and where my RAM is being used. I just found about 18 mspeed files in my guest profile in the \Windows directory which don't need to be there. Each of them were 600K, so deleting 18 of these got my \Windows Directory down from 75Mb to 65Mb.


Softreset without stylist
- http://www.pocketgear.com/software_detail.asp?id=14504

Get rid of irritating popup keyboard

- NullKeyboard

Wallpapers
- Use 640x480 www.digitalblasphemy.com