How to make a watch from the old navigator on Windows CE
Ten years ago, Windows CE was the leader in the operating system market for mobile devices, defeating its competitors in the form of PalmOS, Symbian and others. Windows CE was everywhere - in navigators, tape recorders, communicators, PDAs, and even in medical equipment. But time passed, and now it is rather exotic, and the devices themselves are outdated and firmly settled on storerooms. One of them was found in my home in the face of the Chinese navigator Nexx. After some thought, it was decided to make a watch out of it. And I almost got it ...
When launched, navigators usually load a shell from the manufacturer that blocks access to the OS. It gets around quite easily: instead of a navigation program file, for example. Map: \ NaviOne \ NaviOne.exe , a file manager is attached , for example. TC.exe or cecmd.exe . Starting it from the shell as a navigation program, go to the Windows folder, start explorer.exe and see the Start button and the clock - Windows in thumbnail.
Now you can install your programs from cab-files. If there is no installer and cab-files are not installed (sometimes it happens), you can use cabinstl.exe . Quickly searching for a full-screen clock and finding nothing suitable, I decided that it was easier to shake the old days and write for myself, since programming for Windows CE is not much different from a big brother when using WinAPI. The result is here .
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It remains to add the clock to autoload, so that when the device starts, it is not the shell of the navigator that starts, but the clock. To do this, you need to change the registry key
As a result, we get a large clock that can please the parents.
PS The archive with the mentioned programs can be found here .
When launched, navigators usually load a shell from the manufacturer that blocks access to the OS. It gets around quite easily: instead of a navigation program file, for example. Map: \ NaviOne \ NaviOne.exe , a file manager is attached , for example. TC.exe or cecmd.exe . Starting it from the shell as a navigation program, go to the Windows folder, start explorer.exe and see the Start button and the clock - Windows in thumbnail.
Now you can install your programs from cab-files. If there is no installer and cab-files are not installed (sometimes it happens), you can use cabinstl.exe . Quickly searching for a full-screen clock and finding nothing suitable, I decided that it was easier to shake the old days and write for myself, since programming for Windows CE is not much different from a big brother when using WinAPI. The result is here .
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It remains to add the clock to autoload, so that when the device starts, it is not the shell of the navigator that starts, but the clock. To do this, you need to change the registry key
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\init using TC.exe (with the plugin) or regedit.exe . The registry should be edited with caution, as there is a chance to tinker the device (which I did, since I found out that neither firmware nor hard-reset was available for my navigator), and not to edit the LaunchXX keys with the number less than 60 (this is a system).As a result, we get a large clock that can please the parents.
PS The archive with the mentioned programs can be found here .
Source: https://habr.com/ru/post/371313/
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