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Change working hours on Pocket PC

You have spent noumerous hours bowsing throug your PocketPC device searching for option to change "working hours" in the calendar. It there a easy way? No! You need to tweek your registry. (www.resco.net for registry)

Default value for 8am-5pm:
HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Calendar\ActiveTimes\ActiveTimes = 2210003E (DWORD hexadecimal)
For 9am-5pm:
HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Calendar\ActiveTimes\ActiveTimes = 2212003E (DWORD hexadecimal)
For 2pm-10pm:
HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Calendar\ActiveTimes\ActiveTimes = 2C1C003E (DWORD hexadecimal)

The first 2 characters define the ending hour as a count of half hours since midnight, in hexadecimal. So for midnight, it would be 0 half hours in hexadecimal = 0. 5pm is 17 hours, or 34 half hours. 34 in hexadecimal is 22. 10pm is 22 hours, or 44 half hours. 44 in hexadecimal is 2C. You can use a calculator capable of hexadecimal conversions to get the hexadecimal number.
Similarly, the next 2 characters define the starting hour as a count of half hours since midnight, in hexadecimal. So for 8am.. 16 half hours, 16 in hexadecimal is 10. 9am = 18 half hours = 12. 14h = 28hh = 1C.
Using the above, you should be able to se the working hours to whatever you'd line. Note that this value also adjusts the working DAYS. The examples here all use the default Mon-Fri workweek. See the "Change Calendar 'working days'" tweak to modify this. Note that the ActiveDays key and value may not exist. Simply create them first. Note that you cannot set the End time earlier than the Start time, for obvious reasons. Note that you cannot set a Midnight end time. The best you can do is 11.30pm (2F).
More tweeks can be found on http://www.freddyreyes.com/forums/index.php?topic=120.5;wap2

Pocket PC Error Code Table
For all of you that are experiencing problems with configuring Pocket PC ActiveSync, you can find very good Troubleshooting guide that shows common error codes for WM 2002, 2003 and WM 6 devices at Chris De Herrera's Windows CE Website.
Pocket PC Emulator

If you want to try Pocket PC and Direct Push with Exchange server for free, try the following. Download and install PPC emulator 2.0 from http://download.microsoft.com/download/2/0/0/200b5b46-4159-48e8-bb2e-36fad41e1a8a/vs_emulator.exe and PPC images from http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=C62D54A5-183A-4A1E-A7E2-CC500ED1F19A&displaylang=en (just efp.msi).

After that go to http://services.mail2web.com/FreeServices/ and create free exchange account that you will sync to your Virtual PPC.

List of admins must have apps for PocketPC

Every admin oriented Pocket PC user must have these applications:

vxUtil (Corporate)

vxUtil (Corporate) is a suite of network/internet utilities. These utilities allow you to perform network related trouble-shooting and other functions.
There is no need to carry a laptop to remote locations or in a cramp wiring closet.

Utility includes: DNS Audit, DNS Lookup, Finger, Get HTML, Info, IP Subnet Calculator, Password Generator, Ping , Ping Sweep, Port Scanner, Quote, Time Service, Trace Route, Wake On LAN, Whois

http://www.cam.com/vxutil_corp.html

PocketPC hosts

Pocket Hosts allows you to edit the static host name to IP address mappings on a Pocket PC.

http://www.zimac.de/cestuff.htm

V-Mobile Software Network Browser

  • Powerful file management functionality.
  • Files association assignment.
  • Displays the network layout the same way as on a desktop OS.
  • Instant access to shared files without mapping drives. 
  • Instant access to remote desktops via the Terminal Server Client.
  • Allows to map and disconnect network drives.
  • Displays WiFi network connection status and available networks.
  • Print plain text files on network printers.
  • Network configuration tools and tweaks.
  • Enables "Network" folder for the permanent drive mapping.
  • Edit "hosts" list to resolve network names.
  • Ping and Trace route TCP/IP tools.
  • Wake up on LAN function to power up computers remotely.
  • Supports landscape mode for Windows Mobile 2003 Second Edition.
  • Supports Windows Mobile 5.

http://www.vmobilesoftware.com/NetworkBrowser.htm