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Overhaul your Pocket PC for free

By Lee Chee Wee

Own a Pocket PC but not sure how to optimize and maximize its use? Fret not. We’ve rounded up some top freeware to keep your PDA operating in excellent condition as well as to extend its functions. Before tweaking your system, remember to back up in case something does go amiss.

1. Pocket Nav

The more free memory you have in your Pocket PC, the faster it runs. Many people don't realize that when they tap the close button, the application simply minimizes and is still active in the background. To remedy this situation, you can install a task manager such as Pocket NAV. This ensures precious system memory is made available for running other tasks.

2. RegKing

If you are uncomfortable with editing the registry for that added boost, try fine-tuning your system with RegKing instead. This nifty utility is a great hacking tool for novices. Choose to improve your unit's graphics-rendering speed, change the system font size or even font type. All these can be accomplished in a few simple taps.

3. Turbo Tray

Why should overclocking be limited to the desktop? Turbo Tray lets you do just that on Pocket PCs running on the Intel Xscale processors. Choose to operate your processor speed at 100MHz for maximum power savings or 498MHz for that added advantage.

4. Remover

Over time, your machine gets clogged up by duplicates, temporary files, invalid shortcuts and old registry entries. Remover fixes all these issues and offers a tool to sniff out large files taking up storage space. This way, you can take out the guesswork of which files are hogging your memory.  

5. Pocket PC PowerToys

Perform common tasks at half the time with PowerToys from software developer PHM. This useful tool provides you with a host of functions, including the ability to quickly switch between running applications and performing soft resets as well as suspending your device.

 

 

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