Re: WinCE autorun. Anyone tried?

Hello Icebird,

Friday, August 4, 2006, 3:34:00 PM, you wrote:

> Greets, All.
> I liked Paul Sokolovsky's idea of utilising card autorun.
> Was about trying to make haret autoexec upon a reset.
> I made a 2577 folder where placed the linux files and Haret renamed to
autorun.exe =>> no result
> tried in Ipaq file store SD, CF.
> It doesn't autoexec after a soft reset, after card insertion (tried
> both) or after a soft reset.

  So, how it is on my h4000: yes, after soft reset it doesn't work. It
works after hard reset, and on card insertion *and* removal (
Microsoft considers that a feature).

> Anyone knows how to make that stuff work, since it's much easier, than
> editing the rom.

  Well, few googled links:

  Autorun installation
  http://blogs.msdn.com/marcpe/archive/2005/06/17/430123.aspx

  
http://msdn.microsoft.com/chats/transcripts/mobileembedded/embedded_032603.aspx
Q: What directory number do i need to create on a compact flash card for the 
XScale
processor devices, if I want Autorun.exe to be called?

A: This is specific to PocketPC. Windows CE .NET does not have an "autorun" 
feature.

   Managing Applications on Storage Cards with Autorun.exe
   
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/guide_ppc/html/ppc_programming_pocket_pc_2002_balr.asp

   Windows Mobile Autorun
   http://www.informit.com/guides/content.asp?g=security&seqNum=91&rl=1


   Note the last article says they don't know how to disable autorun,
but I bet registry should have a setting for it, maybe somehow you
have it disabled?




  And btw, I would be also interested in nice working, automated
bootloader from WinCE, and in seamless dualboot. Towards that goal,
I've reserved a wiki page:
http://www.handhelds.org/moin/moin.cgi/WinCePalmOsAsBootloader , so
feel free to dump your thought there ;-)



> btw thanks to Marcus for links about rom editing. I'll be after modding splash
> screens soon =))  Yet still cannot work out if there is a way to
> replace that damned welcome.exe.

  Well, that thread was quite old, and I didn't expect anything new from
it, but I read it thru too. Well, it always ends with that -
modifying a bootlogo and few strings in bootloader. And I even have a
theory why it is so: well, trying to hack my h4000 ROM was last thing
before I got an enlightment that I simply waste my time, and switched
to Linux. Guess, something like that happens to other people too, lol
;-) . So far, only XDA people are brave enough to boil in wince hacking,
http://xda-developers.com  .





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Best regards,
 Paul                            
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