Monday, September 25, 2006

Tips: Where to Run in Windows Mobile?

I tried hard to come up with a funny title, so hard actually that I nearly forgot about the topic of this article. If the title didn't at least make you giggle, I promise not to try again.

I accidentally discovered that Windows Mobile has the same Run functionality that is present in the desktop version of Windows (Start > Run). The Windows Mobile version lets you run any application from the today screen. For that you need to know the name of the application you want to launch. And this is not so easy. For example,to launch word, type pword; pxl for Excel etc.

To start the Run dialog box, press and hold the joystick button, then tap and hold the clock and release the joystick. A menu appear with two options: Run and Clock .

You will soon find out that the Run tool is not very efficient, but at least you've uncovered a hidden feature of your PDA.

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

lol i cant think of anything this is realy usefull for but quite cute.

Linley Meslier said...

Hello St3v3. It's useful if you want to impress your friends ;-)

Anonymous said...

ya true, i showed a collegue who had a imate for a while.