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Originally Posted by Genérico
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... But given that you can't really control where programs get installed to, and you can't be sure that just moving programs will allow them to continue running, that didn't seem like a good plan either.
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Not so, at all. Microsoft has written a couple of little registry strings making sure that no install location requestor pops up during the unpacking of CAB files, but this can easily be corrected. Of course the My Documents limitation which is so deeply embedded system-wide holds here as well, so one must also implement a circumvention such as using gsGetFile.dll to allow browsing to any location for creating an installation folder. I've written it up fairly thoroughly here:
http://vancouverpocketpc.com/CAB_ins...ion_tweak.html
I don't know if this applies when installing from a PC via Activesync... I rarely use that, and when I must it's not for installing a CAB as I use those directly on the device, but for something like TextMaker where no CAB file is available. It would seem likely that the tweaks would apply however, as most PC-based installations to a PPC involve the automated copying-over of a CAB file, which is then unpacked by the local handler.
The folder display bug seems a hard one to cope with, for those who bother with that function in applications like Pocket Word. I find it useless, always have, as being too slow to run through... and with the more recent PPC OS versions it's become buggy in a new way, not displaying all available folders. So I still recommend just browsing for files by carefully organised folder heirarchy, using a sensible file explorer with a two-pane view for speed of searching. Resco, TotalCommanderCE's two-window or virtual two-window modes, FtpView, there are lots of options better than Microsoft's feeble File Explorer.