Windows CE 6.0 vs 7.0: by Maharajan Veerabahu: Introduction It's amazing user experience. New Windows Embedded Compact 7 an operating system announced by Microsoft this year is a challenge to the Device developers for a fast time to market as it is changing faster than most companies can keep up with. A majority of OEMs and developers find. No, the hardware zombie apocalypse is not coming, but Microsoft will soon reach its end of life for support for the Windows CE and Windows Embedded Handheld.Starting this June through 2020, Microsoft will phase out their support of various Windows Embedded Operating Systems. So how can I examine my registry settings on the handheld device? I thought maybe my software was too old (pre-dated the registry) but the page referenced above is for Windows CE 5.0, so that's obviously not the case. I downloaded the 'remote registry editor' which PaulH recommends below.

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In his second comment here, PaulH suggests changing registry settings, providing this link.

I'm not sure editing the registry is really something I want to do, because copying files to the handheld was working fine until late yesterday, and I doubt any change was made to the registry to cause that problem to commence, so I'm not at all sure that changing the registry will fix the problem.

At any rate, I wanted to compare the values I have in the registry with what is shown on that msdn page linked above. The 'USB Function RNDIS Client Driver Registry Settings' section of the page references several values stored in the Registry below HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINEDrivers

However, when I Start > Run > 'regedit' on my Windows CE handheld device, it doesn't know what RegEdit is.

I even looked on my PC for such a branch, but I have no 'Drivers' folder beneath HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE; all I've got are:

So how can I examine my registry settings on the handheld device? I thought maybe my software was too old (pre-dated the registry) but the page referenced above is for Windows CE 5.0, so that's obviously not the case.

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UPDATE

I downloaded the 'remote registry editor' which PaulH recommends below. However, here he recommended changing the registry setting from RNDIS to Serial_Class yet it is already set to Serial_Class:

Does this mean I should try to change it to RNDIS and see what happens, or am I doomed?

2 Answers

Windows CE doesn't come with a registry editor (as you discovered). You can download one, use the Registry API, or (if you can get activesync working) use a remote registry editor.

The registry layout on the WinCE device only vaguely resembles the on on your PC. Don't look for any real consistency there.

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If debugging on visual studio then running Registry API in the watch window is an option.

It's crude but you don't have to download spookware from the internet

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Windows Embedded Compact 7 (formerly known as Windows Embedded CE 7.0) is the seventh major release of Windows Embedded CEoperating system. Windows Embedded Compact 7 is a real-time OS, separate from the Windows NT line, and is designed to target enterprise specific tools such as industrial controllers and consumer electronics devices such as digital cameras, GPS systems and also automotive infotainment systems. Windows Embedded Compact is designed to run on multiple CPU architectures and supports x86, SH (automotive only),^[2][3] and ARM. During development, a Microsoft employee working in this division claimed that Microsoft was working hard on this release and that it shares the underlying kernel with Windows Phone.^[4] Microsoft officially confirmed this and said that Windows Phone 7 is based on Windows Embedded CE 6.0 R3 with some features borrowed from Windows Embedded Compact 7, thus making it a hybrid solution.^[5] Windows Embedded Compact 7 was released on March 1, 2011.^[6]

New features[edit]

Windows Embedded Compact 7 contains these features:^[7]

• Silverlight for Windows Embedded: Allows developers to develop application and user interfaces in Silverlight using Microsoft Expression Blend
• Internet Explorer for Windows Embedded: A web browser similar to that of Windows Phone 7 with integrated Adobe Flash v10.1 support
• Touch support: Windows Embedded Compact 7 recognizes touch and gesture input types
• CPU support: Works on dual core CPUs in symmetric multiprocessing mode
• Platform support: Runs on x86, SH4 (automotive only)^[2][3]MIPS and ARMv7 platforms
• Media playback: Supports Digital Living Network Alliance (DLNA) and Media Transfer Protocol (MTP)
• Networking: Now includes NDIS 6.1 and supports Bluetooth 2.1 EDR

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References[edit]

1. ^ ^ab'Microsoft Support Lifecycle'. Microsoft Support. Microsoft. Retrieved February 6, 2015.
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3. ^ ^ab'Windows Embedded Automotive 7 Datasheet'(PDF). Microsoft. Microsoft. Retrieved February 6, 2015.
4. ^'Windows CE is NOT dead!'. Olivier's Blog. Microsoft. 2010-05-03. Retrieved 2012-07-24.
5. ^'Windows Phone 7 based on a hybrid Windows CE 6 / Compact 7 kernel?'. Engadget. AOL. 2010-05-04. Retrieved 2012-07-24.
6. ^'Microsoft Windows Embedded Compact 7 to hit the market'. Tuggd.com. TUGGD Media. 2011-03-03. Retrieved 2012-07-24.
7. ^Surur (2011-03-01). 'Windows Embedded Compact 7 now released'. WMPoweruser. Retrieved 2012-07-24.