Windows ce 2.0

Handheld devices can now essentially directly access a large number of existing programs through hookups to a LAN local area network. Some of these programs are too large to run on embedded devices because they have limited memory space, but CE 2. For users disconcerted by hard to read screens on their Windows CE handhelds, the company is now supporting bit color screens and larger screen sizes as well as TrueType fonts, which will allow for higher quality type quality on a variety of displays.

The new version of CE, in conjunction with more powerful processors being offered, will give rise to a number of new mobile computing devices and set the stage for CEs use in consumer electronics devices such as Internet set-top boxes. International Data Corporation IDC is predicting the market for portable "PC companion" devices will splinter this year into several new segments.

Click on the device manager tab, Expand modem. Run the Modems applet. To connect via an Infrared Connection: Line up the infrared port on your mobile device with the desktop computer's infrared port.

Use PC Link to open the connection from your mobile device as described in set up a new connection. To begin data synchronisation connect your device to the desktop computer and in 'Mobile Devices' click on 'Tools', 'Synchronise Now' To begin the process. To Back-up your device, connect it to your desktop computer under an established partnership Guest users are not permitted to back-up.

Windows CE Services is equipped with an uninstall routine. To uninstall Windows CE Services 2. Latest Forum Posts '; document. Take whatever parts of the Windows CE Platform they needed for a particular project and release a device based on it. With changes to the hardware requirements laid down with CE 1, into much broader definitions of how CE could be used.

OEM's now had the freedom to create a diverse range of devices. Through out the Windows CE 2 generation of releases, two very distinct types of end user were beginning to leave their marks on Microsoft's future thinking. These were standard PDA users, and users looking for a device akin to a laptop replacement. This distinction between users groups remains prevalent within the entire Windows CE community, particularly within the more diverse Handheld PC community, where the range of devices, device sizes and capabilities allows more in the way of individual freedom over how they use their device.

Throughout the history of the Microsoft Handheld PC the only real rival to emerge into the handheld market has been Psion. Just as the destiny of Psion would become an important footnote on the history of the PDA, the rapidly diminishing fortunes of Psion became a sign of what would lie in store for the Clamshell form factor in a period of less than four years. One of the strongest selling points developed into CE 2 devices is the familiarity the user has with their home or work PC.

The Windows 95 interface introduced with CE 1 was carried on into CE 2, with some additions making it operate like a Windows 98 machine. With the CE 2. These features ensuring that compatibility with Microsoft desktop products was refreshed against the Office 97 release.

This was revised once again in through a service pack, adding a degree of support for Office CE 2 also gained its strength from its communications capabilities. Added to and expanded upon from the original version of CE. CE 2 now provided the kernel and driver layer support for a broader range of peripheral hardware devices, most notably support for network Ethernet adapters, analogue modems, Infrared networking, GSM and cellular connections, the virgining but not yet standardised under the As a result of the broad range of readily available hardware add-ons, Handheld PC devices fast became the interface for the businessman on the move.

The CE 2 operating system was designed to run on a multitude of new, low power device specific microprocessors. Over the course of the entire CE2 generation these included:.

These features came about, largely because of lessons learned from CE 1. The first CE 2. Windows CE 2 was also able to handle larger amounts of data, with broader storage media support, and an increase in the Object Store size to 4MB. This allowed for more complex, specifically tailored applications to be created which could take advantage of the more robust and featured hardware required to do it. The colour displays were able at this stage to support 24 bit colour, however the introduction of colour display adapters went hand in hand with depleted battery performance.

Network support was included in the built-in driver database with the 2. Windows CE 2. True Type became the font standard in Windows CE 2. The change to True Type in 2.