Re: Re-install applications

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From: Daniel Moth (dmoth74_at_hotmail.com)
Date: 12/16/04 

Date: Thu, 16 Dec 2004 00:50:34 -0000

> Windows CE has supported "autorun" since version 3.0. And autorun will
> run programs whenever a device reboots (hard or soft).
> At first, autorun worked with storage cards (CF, SD Cards, ...). It
> would automatically run any executable called autorun.exe found in a

I think it is worth mentioning that autorun is a PPC feature that could
optionally be added by an OEM to a CE 4.2 device onwards. In fact life
becomes much more complicated if the CE device in question does not use
aygshell but uses the standard shell instead.

In light of the above, I would not plainly describe the autorun.exe approach
as a CE feature. I'd love to be proven wrong on this.

Cheers
Daniel 

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<r_z_aret@pen_fact.com> wrote in message
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> On Tue, 14 Dec 2004 21:34:06 +0100, "Marc Claasen"
> <m.claasen@planet.nl> wrote:
>
>>Hi there,
>>
>>we are developing an application that need be 'nurse-proof'.
>>That is, if the battery was completely empty, we need to re-install
>>it automatically of from a SD card or so.
>>
>>Can anyone help me with a suggestion on how to do this?
>>We know that Symbol PDT devices can do this, but we use QTEK 2020
>>or HP devices with PPC2003 running.
>>
>>Any help would be appreciated.
>
> Windows CE has supported "autorun" since version 3.0. And autorun will
> run programs whenever a device reboots (hard or soft).
>
> At first, autorun worked with storage cards (CF, SD Cards, ...). It
> would automatically run any executable called autorun.exe found in a
> CPU-specific folder on a storage card. The names of these CPU-specific
> folders were the same as the names for the CPU-specific sections in a
> inf file used when building CAB files (2577 for ARM, etc.).
>
> More recently, autorun has been extended to work with persistent
> memory, which survives reboots and battery drainage. I believe it has
> been called IPSM (Intel Persistent Storage Memory?), but the name was
> changed to Storage for Pocket PC 2003. For more info, see item e (very
> near the bottom) in a 21 Sep 2004 contribution from Robert Levy to a
> thread called SDK 2003 Vs SDK 2002 in
> microsoft.public.smartphone.developer
>
> I'm pretty sure autorun will ignore storage cards if persistent memory
> exists, but haven't had a chance to really check. Each of the two
> devices I've seen with persistent memory included a file called
> autorun.ini in that persistent memory. And each of these seemed to
> effectively specify commands. I've been able to get each to work, but
> am not ready to generalize. The syntax seems rather different for my
> only two examples.
>
> The persistent memory on one device is way too small to use directly
> for backup storage. I'm wary of using persistent memory on the other
> because I'm not quite sure about size or how many write cycles such
> memory can survive. Thus, I have a copy of my backup program in
> persistent storage, but all it does is find the main copy on a storage
> card, which does all the work.
>
> Finding files on a storage card is mostly the same as for primary
> storage. Except that the name of the root folder can change. It will
> be some variant of "Storage Card", "Storage Card 2", ..., depending on
> how many cards you have installed, and the order in which you've
> installed them. I'm pretty sure I've seen the same card with multiple
> names because I've inserted and removed it a few times. So you really
> need to enumerate through all variations.
>
> All of this involves some tedious coding, but no deep theory. You can
> probably tell from the above that I am still learning.
>
> For more info, I suggest using google
> (http://groups.google.com/advanced_group_search) to look up
> autorun
> in this newsgroup
>
>
>>
>>Kind regards,
>>
>>Marc Claasen
>>
>
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