posted on Sunday, January 15, 2006 12:21 PM
by
jritmeijer
Disabling the annoying ActiveSync Guest dialog
If you are a casual PocketPC user then you are probably not aware of this, but when you are a PocketPC developer or you work with a number of different devices then you don't want to create a profile for every device or even be asked for it every time you plug a cable into a device.
Apparently it is too much effort for Microsoft to put a checkbox in the 'Options' dialog so I have created a small application that allows you to toggle the visibility of it.
The application is very simple, all it does is put a 0 or a 1 in the following registry key.
SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows CE Services\GuestOnly
If the application is started without a command line a user interface will be displayed. If true or false is specified on the command line then no user interface will be displayed and ActiveSync's guest dialog box will be enabled or disabled.
The application can be downloaded here. It has only been tested with ActiveSync 4.1.
Another shameless plug, have you heard about the guy with the cheap iPAQs?