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RobertCF · 03-15-04, 09:23 AM

Although Resco's File Explorer is MUCH better than the File Explorer that came with PPC and WM, here's the process.

Run File Explorer. If it defaults to showing you My Documents, click on the LOV (the down-arrow) and change to My Device. Scroll down to find the Windows folder and select that. Scroll down in the Windows folder and find the Start Menu folder and open that. In that folder you'll see the items that appear when you click on the START button, and you'll see a folder called PROGRAMS. Open that. This should be where you find all the icons for programs you've installed (unless you've created sub menus, in which case the sub menu folders will be here, too). Simply click and hold on each icon you want delete and select DELETE from the popup menu.

As for your compatibility question, let me give you some background (this has been covered on numerous sites, in numerous threads). All PocketPCs are based on Windows CE. Windows CE is the core operating platform that the operating system we know as POCKETPC and WINDOWS MOBILE are based on. However, before POCKETPCs there was an operating system based on Windows CE 2.x. When Microsoft decided to really make a go at the Palm market, they retooled the core, put on a better gui and set of APIs and came up with PocketPC 2000 based on Windows CE 3.x. Later came POCKETPC 2002, which was an improvement on the upper layers of the operating system, but it was still based on Windows CE 3.x. Finally, Microsoft did some more retooling and created a new core, Windows CE 4.x (I believe it is also referred to as Windows CE .net) and an improved frontend, changing the name from POCKETPC to WINDOWS MOBILE. Confused? Not surprised. What this means is:
A PocketPC is now a "generic" term for any PDA that runs EITHER PocketPC 2000, PocketPC 2002, or Windows Mobile 2003 (there is no such thing as PocketPC 2003), all of which are based on some version of the core Windows CE.
Actually, this is kind of smart if you think about it. Most of the time people call ANY device that runs the Palm operating system a PALM. The thing is, unless they ARE a Palm, they are only a PDA running a Palm operating system--the Handspring Visors were all Palm-based, but they weren't Palms. HOWEVER, now you can legitimately refer generically to PocketPCs. It's a mess for those who've been using them for awhile, but most newbies can just say "I'm buying a PocketPC", to which one might ask "Cool...a Dell? An HP? Toshiba?"

Now, as to your specific question, for a program to say it will run on Windows CE isn't enough information. Since, as I said, there are THREE version of the Windows CE core, you'd AT LEAST have to know which one the game was written for. Ah, but wait, there's more! Before Windows CE 4.x the operating system could be compiled for one of several different CPUs!!!! In other words, even if you have a game that says it's for PocketPC 2000, it may not have been compiled to run on a MIPS cpu or a StrongARM cpu, etc. With Windows CE 4.x (and hence, Windows Mobile 2003) one of the basic requirements was that all manufacturers who created a "PocketPC" had to use cpus and were compatible with the Intel chip (the StrongARM). This is great because now if you have a program that will run on Windows Mobile, it's pretty much a sure bet it will run on ANY PocketPC using that operating system.

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RobertCF Aximsite Major League Join Date: Sep 2003 Posts: 463 Thanked 0 Times in 0 Posts	Removing icons, etc. Although Resco's File Explorer is MUCH better than the File Explorer that came with PPC and WM, here's the process. Run File Explorer. If it defaults to showing you My Documents, click on the LOV (the down-arrow) and change to My Device. Scroll down to find the Windows folder and select that. Scroll down in the Windows folder and find the Start Menu folder and open that. In that folder you'll see the items that appear when you click on the START button, and you'll see a folder called PROGRAMS. Open that. This should be where you find all the icons for programs you've installed (unless you've created sub menus, in which case the sub menu folders will be here, too). Simply click and hold on each icon you want delete and select DELETE from the popup menu. As for your compatibility question, let me give you some background (this has been covered on numerous sites, in numerous threads). All PocketPCs are based on Windows CE. Windows CE is the core operating platform that the operating system we know as POCKETPC and WINDOWS MOBILE are based on. However, before POCKETPCs there was an operating system based on Windows CE 2.x. When Microsoft decided to really make a go at the Palm market, they retooled the core, put on a better gui and set of APIs and came up with PocketPC 2000 based on Windows CE 3.x. Later came POCKETPC 2002, which was an improvement on the upper layers of the operating system, but it was still based on Windows CE 3.x. Finally, Microsoft did some more retooling and created a new core, Windows CE 4.x (I believe it is also referred to as Windows CE .net) and an improved frontend, changing the name from POCKETPC to WINDOWS MOBILE. Confused? Not surprised. What this means is: A PocketPC is now a "generic" term for any PDA that runs EITHER PocketPC 2000, PocketPC 2002, or Windows Mobile 2003 (there is no such thing as PocketPC 2003), all of which are based on some version of the core Windows CE. Actually, this is kind of smart if you think about it. Most of the time people call ANY device that runs the Palm operating system a PALM. The thing is, unless they ARE a Palm, they are only a PDA running a Palm operating system--the Handspring Visors were all Palm-based, but they weren't Palms. HOWEVER, now you can legitimately refer generically to PocketPCs. It's a mess for those who've been using them for awhile, but most newbies can just say "I'm buying a PocketPC", to which one might ask "Cool...a Dell? An HP? Toshiba?" Now, as to your specific question, for a program to say it will run on Windows CE isn't enough information. Since, as I said, there are THREE version of the Windows CE core, you'd AT LEAST have to know which one the game was written for. Ah, but wait, there's more! Before Windows CE 4.x the operating system could be compiled for one of several different CPUs!!!! In other words, even if you have a game that says it's for PocketPC 2000, it may not have been compiled to run on a MIPS cpu or a StrongARM cpu, etc. With Windows CE 4.x (and hence, Windows Mobile 2003) one of the basic requirements was that all manufacturers who created a "PocketPC" had to use cpus and were compatible with the Intel chip (the StrongARM). This is great because now if you have a program that will run on Windows Mobile, it's pretty much a sure bet it will run on ANY PocketPC using that operating system.