-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hi Josh,
On 30 Jul 2004 at 12:33, Josh Kennedy <[email protected]> spoke, thus: > I was just wondering because are there settings in the registry that may > make the braillenote operate faster or more efficiently? It would be nice > if we could have access to more windows ce settings through keysoft such as > internet security, and perhaps > some of the stuff in control panel. I'm guessing windows ce has a control > panel like windows xp? Foregoing all the usual stuff about how irresponsible mucking about in the registry is, how dangerous it is, how your machine may begin making strange noises or play tuneful durges and then suddenly blow up in your face for no readily apparent reason if you change something silly, etc, etc, etc, here are some real answers for your unquenched curiosity. Please remember what the other guy said about being sensible, if only because I can't be made to repeat it here for more than just time reasons. <Grin> I do think, as the owner of a Windows CE device, though, that you have a right to an answer. I do not think, as the producer of a Windows CE device, that they should be blamed or should be expected to support you if you screw up, though I do think they should be honest in helping you to accomplish your ultimate goals and definitely should not revoke your warranty. First of all, you don't manipulate the registry as a file. It needs to be manipulated using API calls on the device itself or over a network using the remote registry protocol. There may be tools available for doing this editing directly on the handheld, but you can't use those, because they won't speak. To do the latter, you need the registry editor from the Windows CE toolkit for either Visual Basic or Visual C++, versions above 3, but version 6 is recommended for CE 2.12. Sadly, this comes at a price, and I haven't found a free alternative that works on the PC. I never found out how the registry hack for the infrared modem in previous versions of KeySoft worked, so I'm guessing it was an application run on the note. With the remote registry editor, you can use your PC to get a good goosy at the stuff in there, which is, as you say, inclusive of all the gritty stuff that, as a perfectionist, you will insist upon changing. For me, that's the device name used as the ActiveSync host and DHCP client handle, the power management options, the list of processes started when the unit starts (there are some redundant ones in there, including the graphical shell!), and a bunch of other really interesting things. I heartily agree with you that we should, reasonably, be able to change more about the devices' operations than are currently possible using the KeySoft wrapper, certainly, I think, to the extent provisioned by the original applications if not by the full registry itself. You never know, though, someone may come up with a KeySoft-enabled registry editor when this new SDK comes along... Cheers, Sabahattin - -- Thought for the day: A penny saved is ridiculous. Sabahattin Gucukoglu Phone: +44 20 7,502-1615 Mobile: +44 7986 053399 http://www.sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/ Email/MSN: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGP 8.0 -- QDPGP 2.70 iQA/AwUBQQqOoSNEOmEWtR2TEQJOiACgjcvJcP9dnvHblIP80/W658lnxPAAnjso RJyknxTNXetXCMEAsWZZPOmc =J3pu -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
