Show Date and Time in Title Bar

The Pocket PC display the time in the title bar, the user can select Analog or Digital using tap&hold on the time. But some people also want the date to be easily available, this was actually available on Palm-size PC devices. Fortunately there is a tweak to display both the date and time instead of time only in the Pocket PC title bar :


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Create a binary value named "TBOpt" and set its value to "13 00 00 00".
Save any unsaved document and reset your Pocket PC.

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Enable original backlight and contrast applets

Many OEM replace the Backlight and/or Contrast settings applet by their own versions :

Compaq iPaq 3650 :
OEM Backlight applet, same as original but with a Brightness tab for iPaq special purposes. Removed the Contrast applet because contrast settings are not supported on the iPaq.

Casio EM-500 :
OEM Brightness applet that replace both the original Backlight and Contrast. Added the ability to set different brightness values for battery and external power operations.
Removed "Turn on backlight when a button is pressed or the screen is tapped" settings because it is not supported, replaced by the Auto Dim settings.
Included the contrast in the same applet, the system one does work, but their device act at the oposite of what it should (Dark is Light and Light is Dark).

HP Jornada 548 :
OEM Backlight applet, removed the External Power tab the "Turn on backlight when a button is pressed or the screen is tapped" setting for Battery Power because these settings are not supported.

Now, here is how to restore the Microsoft original applets on any Pocket PC, note that most settings OEM have been hiding with their own applet does not work anyway, the OEM applet(s) will still be available in the Settings.
For the Backlight applet, browse to

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\ControlPanel\Backlight\

Rename the "Redirect" value to "Redirect disabled", you could just delete it, but renaming it makes it easy to go back to the OEM setting.
For the Contrast applet, do the same with

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\ControlPanel\Contrast\

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Customize startup programs

In this registry key you can find all the items that appear in the 'New' menu on the Today screen:
These are the programs that automatically start when performing a soft reset:

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Speed Up your Pocket PC

This tweak might help improving visual performance of your pocket pc:

1. Open your registry editor o�n your Pocket PC
2. Navigate to
   
   Quote:

   HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\GDI\GLYPHCACHE\

3. Change the value of 'limit' from 8192 to 32768
4. Close registry editor and soft reset.

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Customize 'Low Battery' alerts

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Create a String value named "Default" and set its value to "Low battery warning".

Now go to Start > Settings > Personal tab > Sounds & Notifications applet > Notifications tab, select "Low battery warning" in the "Select an event" drop-down list and you can customize it.

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Disable start menu animation

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HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\GWE\Menu\

Change the "AniType" value from 6 to 0.

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Auto-Launch programs after soft-reset

Simply put a shortcut to that program or file in the windows\startup folder.

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Disable SMS Sent notification

Disable SMS Sent Notification :

->1 to disable
->0 to Enable

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Change the "Message Send" notification message

Changing the Message Sent Notification Message:

Change the Value "MessageSent" to whatever you like the Default is "Message Sent"

Only works on Windows Mobile 2003 Phone edition and requires a soft-reset.

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Change Internet Explorer Homepage

Changing Homepage in Pocket internet explorer:

"Start Page"="http://yourpage.com"

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