Speed up your Pocket PC Guide
While new Pocket PC owners are usually excited with their purchase, their enthusiasm is often dampened once they run into stability and speed issues.
This guide will walk you through several tips to keep your machine slick and well-oiled.
As with any system or registry tweaks, always backup in case something does go amiss. Remember, we're not responsible for any loss of data.
1. Disable Windows menu animation
Switching off eye candies like animation keeps your handheld zippy. To do so, you'll need a registry editor like PHM RegEdit to modify the registry. Navigate to
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE \SYSTEM\GWE\Menu,
then change the value of "AniType" from 6 (default) to 0. This disables the menu animation.
If doing this is a daunting task, an easy alternative is with RegKing. This nifty freeware lets you toggle the menu animation easily and offers other tweaks.
2. Increase display cache
Another tip to speed up the display is to increase the glyph cache value. However, this will take up more system memory. Launch your registry editor and browse to
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\GDI\GLYPHCACHE.
Change the value of "limit" from 8192 (default) to 16384 or even 32768.
If meddling the registry is unnerving for you, RegKing gets this done in a few taps.
3. Close not minimize
If you are unaware, when you tap on the close button, the program only minimizes. Hence, you may end up with a string of programs running on the background taking up valuable memory. Check out some freeware task managers to better manage your device's resources.
If you don't mind spending a little, we recommend Spb Pocket Plus. In addition to task management, this feature-laden software adds a launcher, battery meter and other functions. More steps of this guide you can find at http://www.mobiletopsoft.com/board/view.php?newsid=276
While new Pocket PC owners are usually excited with their purchase, their enthusiasm is often dampened once they run into stability and speed issues.
This guide will walk you through several tips to keep your machine slick and well-oiled.
As with any system or registry tweaks, always backup in case something does go amiss. Remember, we're not responsible for any loss of data.
1. Disable Windows menu animation
Switching off eye candies like animation keeps your handheld zippy. To do so, you'll need a registry editor like PHM RegEdit to modify the registry. Navigate to
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE \SYSTEM\GWE\Menu,
then change the value of "AniType" from 6 (default) to 0. This disables the menu animation.
If doing this is a daunting task, an easy alternative is with RegKing. This nifty freeware lets you toggle the menu animation easily and offers other tweaks.
2. Increase display cache
Another tip to speed up the display is to increase the glyph cache value. However, this will take up more system memory. Launch your registry editor and browse to
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\GDI\GLYPHCACHE.
Change the value of "limit" from 8192 (default) to 16384 or even 32768.
If meddling the registry is unnerving for you, RegKing gets this done in a few taps.
3. Close not minimize
If you are unaware, when you tap on the close button, the program only minimizes. Hence, you may end up with a string of programs running on the background taking up valuable memory. Check out some freeware task managers to better manage your device's resources.
If you don't mind spending a little, we recommend Spb Pocket Plus. In addition to task management, this feature-laden software adds a launcher, battery meter and other functions. More steps of this guide you can find at http://www.mobiletopsoft.com/board/view.php?newsid=276
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| Author: | Vesselin Nerdeff |
| Website: | http://www.mobiletopsoft.com |
| Date Created: | 23-February-2006 |
| Times viewed: | 47339 |
Discussion
its working :)
Did the registry tweak...noticed the dif straight away. cheers!
(Tmobile-MDA...i-Mate K-Jam)
I added that Spb Pocket Plus to my xv6700 and it seemed to make it lock up more and run slower
This gives the Tmobile MDA a kick in the arse!
Concerning "close not minimize":
Here is a little program that also has an option to do a real "close" instead of a "minimize"
http://www.phm.lu/products/PocketPC/Keys
And in this case: this one is free of charge ;)
also a cool app for the close thing is magic button available on cnet downloads. very small footprint.. integrates nicely.
i think the best solution for "closing" problem, is to associate a hard button for that (with AEBplus for example) and leave the rest of the settings unchanged...there will be a lot of times when you just want to minimize your programs!
Can we tweak the followings
\HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Explorer\Database
AppointmentsDatabase
ContactsDatabase
TasksDatabase
to point to stotage card?
A great product to solve the "closing" button is HandySwitcher. It can utilize the hardware "OK" button on my HTC tytn, but I know it works on other devices too.
http://www.dinarsoft.com/handyswitcher
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How to use tweaks
In order to change registry settings, you'll need a registry editor. You can download the free PHM Registry editor here
Note that editing the registry can mess up windows mobile. Always take a backup of your data
In order to change registry settings, you'll need a registry editor. You can download the free PHM Registry editor here
Note that editing the registry can mess up windows mobile. Always take a backup of your data
