Mini Frequently Asked Questions related to WLAN, Power, and Windows CE. Why is it important? WLAN can use significantly more power than other wireless technologies. For this higer battery consumption, you may get much higher performance. WLAN...

IEEE 802.11 WLAN, a.k.a. WiFi, is a dynamic technology being added to a number of CE devices. Increasingly, these devices are battery powered. Under these circumstances driver developers have to trade-off between POWER and PERFORMANCE. Making the wrong...

RTC Core Layer and SIP protocol keys Port manager related keys Key Path: HKLM\Comm\\RTC\\PortRange Key Value(s) Key Value Type Description Enabled DWORD Enables Port range as defined by subsequent...

I mention here that the information about the GPSID poll driver is now included in WinCE 6. If you are an OEM implementing a GPS driver on CE6 and you're not natively spitting out NMEA but would have to generate NMEA only for GPSID to parse, I'd highly...

Suppose you have some service in services(d).exe on your CE device that is so critical that you don't anyone ever unloading it. This would be a paranoid play, since most users never mess around with loading and unloading services directly. But say that...

At some basic level, Windows CE's GPSID and Location Framework are doing the same thing. They're giving you the position of your device. I've had people ask me if with Location Framework if we were going to retire/deprecate/etc... GPSID. No. First...

In CE 6.0, one of the things we changed was naming services.exe to be servicesd.exe. I mentioned it at the end of my CE6 services.exe initial post as to why we did this. Services.exe in CE6 is just a simple command line wrapper that lets you do things...

By default, whenever you use BSTRs OLE will keep the memory cached in order to aid performance. There are scenarios where you may want to disable this. First would be if you're on a device with not a lot of memory and don't want it being spent in the...