Re: Startup

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From: Carlo Ma. Guerrero [MVP] (ppcsurfr_at_hotmail.com)
Date: 08/25/04 

Date: Wed, 25 Aug 2004 18:44:00 +0800

The built-in Find feature normally wrks pretty well... as long as the files
are within the My Documents folder.

If you need a stronger one that will look through all files... Resco
Explorer is capable of searching them out... but leaves the databases such
as contacts, calendar, email or tasks out.

You can also use Kilmist FileQuest to search for files throuout the
system... Not including databases for contacts, calendar, etc.. though...
(AFAIK) 

-- 
Carlo Ma. Guerrero
Microsoft MVP, Mobile Devices
"normc" <normc@socal.rr.com> wrote in message 
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Sven, MVP-Mobile Devices wrote:
> Not sure why you think it is illogical,
Don't want to get into a pissing contest about logic.  All people are
not created equal when it comes to logic, and I may be on the short
side, even though I've taken logic courses and done logical design.
Sorry I neglected to say 'IMHO' <g>.
> unless you think the windows on the desktop is as well.
Not at all.  After writing exec and autoexec files for PC/MSDOS and then
having the pleasure of a startup folder in OS2 and MS Windows,  I
suspect that my problem is that I've been using Windows for so long, I
just expected that the STARTUP folder worked like it does on virtually
all the personal computers in the world.  That is, unless otherwise
specified.  And I haven't been able to find any unique features
described either in HELP or my Dell User's Manual.
IMHO, there are a number of ambiguities in PPC 2003, which could have,
and, IMHO, should have been covered in the documentation.  Is not MS
responsible for the online HELP?  Perhaps it is only Dell that didn't
provide anything useful in their User's Manual.
One unique feature is the extra capability you get if you make your
keyboard 'small'.  It's a whole new world.  Isn't this the same in all
PDAs running PPC 2003?  Has any manufacturer of PDAs documented this?
Do they even know about it?  Has anyone else here recognized this unique
feature?
> It follows that quite closely.  You might want to get
> yourself a File Explorer that is more like what you are accustomed to like
> Resco File Explorer. Looking at the tree it appears much like a desktop 
> PC.
> The built in file explorer is not really intended to be used much by the
> average consumer I would think. The applications you would use are exposed
> to the user on the start menu or the applications page. Each one typically
> opens to a file dialog that is filtered to documents appropriate to the
> application loaded. You shouldn't need to dig for your files in the file
> explorer.
Thanks, I'll take a look at the Resco File Explorer.  I've been using
the latest version of Spb Pocket Plus to explore.  Seem to be quite adequate
>
> The Find work a bit differently but I think sensibly on the device. It 
> finds
> strings in user data. If for instance you recall where an appointment is 
> or
> who it is with, but don't recall the date, Find will get it for you.
Yes, this is clear, and I have used it this way.
> If you
> know the amount, but don't know which Pocket Excel spread*** it's in, 
> Find
> will get it for you.
Please clarify this example.  Are you saying that if I know an amount
(number, dollars, etc.) that I put into a Pocket Excel spread***, but
I can't remember the name I gave the file, that I can find it by using
FIND?????
> If you are looking for oddball.dll, that's not what it
> is for.  If that's what you want, again Resco.
So Resco has a browse (explorer) function and a FIND function?  To find
a number in a spread*** would require the ability to find a word, or
set of words, such as Ransack/FileLocator does on the PC.
>
> As far as the Shortcuts folder, you'd have to ask Dell why they added it,
> it's not on my other PPCs. My guess would be to have a simple place for 
> tech
> support to go and recover shortcuts that users deleted out of the Start 
> Menu
> folder, instead of having to walk them through finding the app, creating a
> shortcut and moving it, and possibly renaming it.
Your guess sounds good to me.  That's where I went to get a copy of a
shortcut for the Axim file switcher, to put in my STARTUP file.
>
> The Startup folder does exactly the same as the Startup folder does on a
> desktop.
That's the problem, it doesn't do exactly the same thing.  IMHO, this is
one of the many ambiguities in PPC 2003, that are ambiguous, primarily,
because they are not explained anywhere.  At least, not if you buy a
Dell unit.
The switch on my Dell that applies battery power or external power to my
unit, is called a power switch.  But now I have discovered, with much
help here, that it really isn't a power switch.  No... that's not really
what I've discovered.  What I've discovered is that it is a power
switch, but that when you power up, PPC 2003 doesn't look in the STARTUP
folder.  It only looks there when you do a soft reset.  Right?
> You just need to understand that turning the unit on is not a
> startup. A soft reset, somewhat equivalent to a re-boot, is. I know there 
> is
> a way to programmatically detect turn on and execute based on that 
> detection
> as there have been third party products that do that. My favorite was the
> one that played the Star Trek communicator sound whenever you turned the 
> PPC
> on....that lasted for about a day on my Jornada.
Regardless of the lack of logic or the ambiquities, the important thing
is to be able to use it within the bounds of how it was designed to be
used.  Is there anything, anywhere, that I can beg, borrow, or steal
that I can read to determine how it was designed to be used.
Thank you, and the others, for your help.
>
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