 Windows Mobile Tweaks
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. |