(Q:) When I connect my HPC to my desktop
machine, it tries to connect to the Internet! How can I stop this?
(A:) You have two options: go into your INTERNET settings (control panel)
and tell Windows you are connected to the 'net via a LAN, which will require you
to initiate a dial-up connection manually when you want to connect to the
Internet; the other option is to set your browser's home page to a blank page.
IE 5.0 apparently fixes this problem. And if you're running Activesync, you
shouldn't be having this problem.
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(Q:) Why can't I be connected to the Internet
and my CE device at the same time?
(A:) You need to get the newest DUN from Microsoft: http://www.microsoft.com/windows/downloads/
- this is for Windows 95 machines. If you're on Windows 98, you should be able
to add another DUN connection and TCP/IP stack for your 'net connection. Look on
the CD that came with your CE device - there might be a newer DUN on it. Please
note this problem doesn't occur on NT 4.0, or most machines running IE 5.0.
Here are complete instructions posted by a CE newsgroup member:
"If you're using Win95 on your desktop, you'll first need to install the
upgrade to Dial-Up Networking. Insert the Windows CE Services 2.0 CD-ROM,
wait for the Windows CE Servies menu to appear and then select option 4:
Optional Components from the menu. A directory will open. Open the Microsoft
Windows 95 Dial-Up Networking Upgrade version 1.2 folder. The window that
opens may be small, in which case the folder may be abbreviated
"Microsoft Windows..." Double-click the Msdun12 file to run the
upgrade installer. You'll be asked to agree to the software license and
the software will be copied to your ahrd drive.
When the file copying is finished, you'll be asked to click OK to restart the
computer. After you computer reboots, Windows will configure and finish
installing the upgrade. You may get error messages about the installation
trying to copy files that are older than the onew already on your computer. Go
ahead and click Yes to keep the newer versions. After the installation is
complete, your computer will restart one more time. The next time the
computer boots up, it will be ready to go - you'll be able to connect to your CE
computer and ISP at the same time. If you open the Network Control Panel, you'll
notice you now have two dial-up adapters, not one. One is for you ISP, the
other is for your CE computer. The reason both couldn't peacefully coexixt
before is that they were using the same Dial Up Adapter, which just
won't work."
You can also find more instructions for setting this up at http://members.tripod.com/Frank_McPherson/how/answ6.htm
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(Q:) I have a Palm-size PC. Can I get a Web
browser for it?
(A:) A program called "Proxy Web" allows on-line browsing. It's a
browser which accesses a "proxy server" which processes its pages by
converting them into a format more useful to the Palmsize PC's smaller and four
greyscale screen. http://www.proxinet.com/
A non-proxied online web browser can be found at http://www.conduits.com/pspc/index.html.
Another can be found at http://www.smartcodesoft.com/products/handhelds/hh_CE_handweb.html.
And of course, be sure to check out Mike's
list of PsPc software. Also, iBrowser from
Foliage is supposed to be quite good!
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(Q:) Inbox won't work with MSN!
(A:) MSN doesn't support standard POP3, and neither does AOL. The most
extensive list of CE ISP settings is located here: http://www.cewindows.net/wce/isp.htm
- please read this and try out different settings before asking a question. You
can access MSN mail using PIE and Hotmail. For information on how to to do
that go here: http://members.tripod.com/Frank_McPherson/how/answ3.htm
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(Q:) Are there other email options?
(A:) Yes! There are several other email programs out there for a variety of
different corporate solutions. There is NO other POP3 mail programs however -
the Microsoft Inbox is our only option at the moment. More email info can be
found here: http://www.cewindows.net/wce/20/email.htm
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(Q:) Why can't I see frames with Pocket
Internet Explorer, and what can other versions of PIE do?
(A:) Pocket Internet Explorer (PIE) 1.0 supported basic HTML 3.0, but no
frames. PIE 1.1 added support for HTTPS and SSL2, SSL3, PCT. PIE 2.0 supports
frames, but that's about it for new additions.
PIE 2.0 does NOT support Java,
JavaScript, ActiveX, VB script, Flash, or any other similar technology. PIE 2.0
is 64 bit. PIE 2.0 comes with CE 2.0 - you can't download it for CE 1.0. The
complete specs for the Microsoft Pocket Internet Explorer can be found here: http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/Q158/4/79.asp
NEW: The new HPC/Pro with CE 2.11 has Pocket Internet Explorer 3.0 that supports
the following technologies:
*Connect to shared folders on the network
*CryptoAPI 1.0, Security Support Interface (SSPI), and 128-bit encryption
support (where allowed by law)
(128 bit version is available for download here: http://www.microsoft.com/windowsce/downloads/pccompanions/128ssl.asp
)
*Support for Java Script and improved compatibility with HTML 3.2
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(Q:) Does CE support Java?
(A:) Yes, just recently Sun has released a beta version of Personal Java for
Windows CE on MIPS processors. It is available from the Sun
Developers Connection (you must register, but registration is free).
An alternative is a Java-compatible language called Waba from WabaSoft.
Another alternative is CrEme from NSI.COM
There *was* a developers VM that could be loaded onto a CE device, but it was
removed from the Microsoft web-site. It did not hook into PIE 1.0 or 2.0 in any
manner, and was strictly for development purposes.
Some HPC/Pro machines have increased support for Java - the HP
Jornado has a Java VM on the CD that you can load. However, it still doesn't
hook into the Pocket Internet Explorer in any fashion. All in all, Java on CE
isn't very well supported.
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(Q:) Can I FTP? Telnet?
(A:) You bet! Look through any of the software sites listed at the beginning
of this FAQ, and you'll see plenty of options. Scotty FTP from Ruksun
is a great program for FTP. There's also another powerful program called vxHpc
made by Cambridge here - it has full
VT52, VT100, VT101, VT102, VT220, VT320, VT420 and Wang 2110A emulation.
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(Q:) How do I remove messages from my Inbox
without deleting them from the server (Palm-size PC and HPC)?
(A:) Highlight the Inbox folder and select "Clear Inbox" from the
menu.
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(Q:) How do I remove messages from my Inbox
that have already been removed from the server and are "stuck" in my
WinCE inbox (Palm-size PC and HPC)?
(A:) Follow these steps:
On the device, move the items from the Deleted Items folder to the Inbox folder.
On the device, create a new temporary folder.
On the device, move the items that you undeleted in Step 1 from the Inbox folder
to the new folder.
Synchronize the device with the desktop PC.
Highlight the new temporary folder and press delete. Respond
"Yes" to permanently delete folder.
It works like this: CE downloads your email, but it leaves a copy on the server
(even if you tell it not to). When you delete the email, it goes into the
DELETED ITEMS folder. When you EMPTY the DELETED ITEMS folder, it tries to
connect to the server and purge your email account of the email that you are
telling it to delete. When it can't find it (because it's been downloaded and
deleted by your main PC), you get an error. I'm sure there must have been some
reason for MS to think this was useful, but I can't figure out
why... :-)
You can find more info out here: http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/q177/2/97.asp?FR=0
Lastly, you can remove the service and it will remove all email associated with
that service.
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(Q:) What settings should I use when using
my Windows CE device with a mobile phone to dial into the Internet?
(A:) These settings work with the Ericsson SH888. Create a new
connection using the IrDA device as the modem. Set up the other parameters as
follows: Baud rate 57600, Data bits: 8, Parity: None, Stop bits: 1, Flow
control: Hardware. Yes, that's 57600. Even though GSM data operates at 9600,
with compression used it could be more, so put it up quite high. Set up the
TCP/IP settings as per the instructions from your ISP – generally, you will
use a server-assigned IP address with software compression and IP header
compression. Slip set to off, and the name servers as supplied by your ISP.
Submitted
by John Kennedy.
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(Q:) I have my system dialing up to the
Internet. Using Inbox, I can receive email fine, but when I try and send any I
get a warning dialog saying "Unknown SMTP error" and the mail isn't
sent!
(A:) Check with your ISP that you have the email service settings correct.
Also, put angled brackets ("<" and ">") around all
outgoing addresses, and also around your own address in the Reply to: box.
Submitted
by John Kennedy.
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(Q:) I've just got a mobile phone
which I'm trying to use with my Windows CE system. Whenever I try to dial, all I
get is "No Carrier". What am I doing wrong?
(A:) You mightn't be doing anything wrong. If your mobile phone network
hasn't switched on the data features for your phone this is what happens. You
will have to contact them and ask – they may also give you two new numbers,
one for incoming data and one for incoming fax.
Submitted by John
Kennedy.
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(Q:) Can I retrieve AOL email with my
CE device?
(A:) You can use AOL's web-based mail software at http://netmail.web.aol.com.
Handmail, another program that was promising, has been discontinued. Very
curious! If you're REALLY desperate, you can try getting the DOS
emulator and running an old DOS-based AOL client. 100% hack, but it works
(or so I hear). WIth the new HP Jornada 540
Pocket PC devices you get AOLMail, but I don't know where you can download
it from if you don't have a Jornada device...
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(Q:) What news server contains the
Microsoft public Windows CE newsgroups?
(A:) You can find the Microsoft public newsgroups at the msnews.microsoft.com
news server. You should also be able to find these groups on your
ISP's news server, or by using Dejanews at http://www.dejanews.com.
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(Q:) Why can't I get ICQ to work on my
HPC PRO?
(A:) Because Mirabilis (the makers of ICQ) was bought out by the bloated and
monolithic AOL, development on basically everything has been killed. Three
cheers for narrow-minded corporate thinking! :-( Anyways the solution to this is
a bit of a hack, but it should work: Some newer HPC Pro don't have the
mfcce20.dll file in ROM. Some 3rd party software still needs that DLL, but in
the PRO ROM, the file is mfcce211.dll so it doesn't find what it needs. To solve
this, simply find the mfcce20.dll file for your processor (SH3, MIPS, whatever)
and copy it in the \windows\ directory on your handheld. That will hopefully do
the trick, and you can find the file at www.cemonster.com.
You can also try manually adding in the IP address of the ICQ server, which is
205.188.153.100 - this might do the trick! You can also try the AOL
Instant Messenger. No word on an MSN Messenger client for CE.
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(Q:) How can I measure the modem speed
I'm connecting with?
(A:) There is no way to do this built into the box, and I'm not aware of any 3rd
party WinCE apps. On the other hand, you can try the MSN
Computing Central Speed Test page!
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(Q:) How do I move mobile channels to a
storage card?
(A:) This is unsupported and requires drastic actions to perform: http://www.fmcpherson.com/knowce/how/answ5.htm
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(Q:) Which ISPs support Windows CE? What settings should I use when connecting to one of these ISPs?
(A:) Chris De Herrera maintains a list of ISPs that support Windows CE and the
settings required to use them at http://www.cewindows.net/wce/isp.htm
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(Q:) Where can I find a web-based calendar
service that will sync with my CE device?
(A:) AnyDay.com offers a free
internet-based calendar.
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