One of the great things about the HTC Wizard is that you can tweak settings in the registry. This allows you to change settings that are not accessible throught the configuration menu, or apply parameters to settings that are not available in the regular configuration options.
Accessing the registry
The registry is not accessible with the standard File Explorer that comes pre-installed with Windows Mobile 5. You'll have to install an alternative file explorer to be able to get into the registry. The two most widely used alternative file explorers for Windows Mobile 5 are Total Commander and Resco Explorer. The latter is non-free software, registered members of the HTC Wizard Web will find two versions of Total Commander attached to the bottom of this article.
The attached executable can be installed over ActiveSync from your desktop PC. The .cab version is available for those of us who are having problems with ActiveSync (for example because they use a Mac, just kidding). They can put it on their device and execute it.
Total Commander is a perfect file manager, not just because it gives you access to the registry. For example, Total Commander allows you to create shortcuts, which is a great way to have programs run at startup. Just put a shortcut in \Windows\StartUp.
To access the registry you should navigate to \\\registry (yep, that’s 3 backslashes). You will find yourself at the top of the registriy hierarchy. From there on you can navigate to any place in the registry to change settings, add settings or remove settings.
Soft reset required
Changes to the registry require a soft reset of your HTC Wizard to be activated. Please use the second method to perform a soft reset that is described on www.htcwizardweb.net/node/116. As explained in that article, the "standard" method with the stylus sometimes prevents the changes to be written back to your device before it resets, making it look like the changes you made were reverted.
In this part of the HTC Wizard Handbook you'll find registry tweaks that change settings in various networking options that can not be achieved through te Settings menu.
The HTC Wizard notifies you that it successfully sent an SMS message by default, which you may find annoying. The following registry tweak disables the feature:
For those of you with access to EDGE networks, it is nice to have an icon showing that you are connected to an EDGE network. That can be achieved with this tweak:
When your plan with your operator includes flat rate GPRS service, it is conveniant to always be connected to GPRS. This saves you a few hands full of seconds every time you go online and let's face it, you want your HTC Wizard to be online! You can achieve this with the following tweak:
People have been asking wether having GPRS always on would affect the ability to use WIFI. Don't worry, WIFI connectivity prevails over GPRS or EDGE, so whenever you have a wireless connection available GPRS will be shut down.
The HTC Wizard has WIFI built-in, which in itself is wonderful. However, some manufacturers have decided not to enable 802.11g connectivity by default. More and more people own wireless network equipment based on the 802.11g standard and want to connect with their HTC Wizard.
Please take a look at this topic on the XDA Developers Forum for more information. In this topic people discuss a .cab file that tweaks some more settings on your HTC Wizard than just the enabling of 802.11g, but I’ll discuss those in a future post.
To enable 802.11g capability to your HTC Wizard make the following changes in the registry:
Those of you who don't feel comfortable editing the registry can download the attached .cab file, put it on their HTC Wizard, execute and soft reset. The attached file is visible to registered members of the HTC Wizard Web only.
In this part of the HTC Wizard Book you'll find tweaks that have better performance of your HTC Wizard as a main goal.
When you move around throught the menu on your HTC Wizard, you will notice that the menu’s are animated. That looks nice, but the menu animations use valuable memory resources and slow down operations. You can disable menu animations with the following registry tweak:
The following registry tweaks will increase the operating speed of your HTC Wizard:
These changes give you extra speed at the cost of some extra memory usage on your HTC Wizard.
In this part of the HTC Wizard Handbook you'll find tweaks that change the default behaviour of Windows Mobile 5, or add new functionality or features to Windows Mobile 5
One of the best features of the HTC Wizard is its extractable keyboard. However, using the Shift and Symbol key can be quite confusing because it is not always obvious what the status of these buttons is. Here is the solution:
From now on when you extract the keyboard, a keyboard status indicator will be visible. A C indicates that the Shift key is active, a dot indicates that the Symbol key is active.
Cleartype is a technique that smooths out the strong aliasing effect when displaying small, high-contrast graphic elements such as text on computer displays. Cleartype is available on your HTC Wizard in the Settings menu. You can enable ClearType to enhance readability on your HTC Wizard as follows:
Even if you enabled Cleartype using the method above, ClearType will not be enabled in landscape mode. Your HTC Wizard screen's LCD red/green/blue ordering required for proper ClearType display is only correct for Portrait display. You may or may not prefer to leave ClearType in Landscape mode disabled. If you want to give it a try anyway, you can use the following registry tweak: