New Features in PowerToys for Handheld PC Version 2.0

* Business Cards
Exchange business cards as easily as shaking hands. Pick a business card from your Contacts application and exchange it over InfraRed. Gives you the ability to exchange your personal or corporate logo with your business card.

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* Information Today
View everything about Today all from one application. This unique tool shows your appointments, tasks, alarms, electronic mail (e-mail), contacts and status that are relevant to today. Double-clicking an item launches the application that created the data.

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* Mailbox Grepper
Finds e-mail addresses hiding in your e-mail.
This PowerToy is integrated into the Contacts application.
Scans the headers of all messages in your inbox. Creates a contact for each unique e-mail address found. Populates the name, e-mail, company and country fields based on information found in the e-mail address.

Create Contacts:

1. Open Contacts.
2. Tools > Mailbox Grepper.

Find All Created Contacts:

1. Tools > Customize Columns.
2. Add Office Location and tap OK.
3. Sort by Office Location.

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* DTMF Dialing
Dials the phone number stored in a contact.
This PowerToy is integrated into the Contacts application.
Dials an analog phone. Choose the number from a list of all the phone numbers in the specified contact card and dial with the push of a button. No more remembering phone numbers.


Old Favorites Returning from the Original PowerToys

* Mute
Turn off all sounds with a tap of a taskbar button.
The Mute program places a speaker icon in the tray on the taskbar.
When sounds are off, the speaker icon is displayed with an X through it and the volume is set to 0.

To turn sounds on or off:

1. Tap the speaker icon.

To quit the Mute program:

1. Double-click the speaker icon.
2. In the Mute Speaker dialog box, tap Yes to exit.

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* Cascading Menus
Instant access to files and folders using cascading and scrolling menus. Places an icon on the tray of your taskbar on your H/PC. Delayed icon fetch speeds up performance 300%.

* To launch a file, double-click the file on the Cascading menu.
* To browse subfolders, double-click the folder on the Cascading menu. The Cascading menu displays a submenu showing the folder's contents.
* To explore folders in Explorer view, hold CTRL while double-clicking the folder.

Fully customizable: just drag the files, folders or shortcuts you'd like to see on the menu to the Windows\Start Menu folder.

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* Paint Program for Windows CE
Create pictures and edit images with a pocket-sized version of the Microsoft Windows 95 Paint program. Paint for Windows CE works just like Paint for Windows 95 on your desktop computer.

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* Sound Schemes
Copy one or more of the following custom sound schemes to your H/PC. Use the Sound tab on the Volume & Sounds control panel to activate them. These classic schemes are available: Analog, Metallic, and Organic. This new scheme has clever connection sound effects: Sci-Fi.

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* Bitmap Tiles
Copies nine more bitmaps to your Handheld PC. Use the Display control panel to select a new image as the Windows CE wallpaper. The following bitmaps are available: Arcade, Argyle, Cars, Castle, Chintz, Concrete, Honey, Squares, and Thatch.

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Notably Missing:

* Remote Control for Windows CE
Note: Unfortunately, Remote Control no longer works in version 2.0. The technical reason is that a change to the graphics subsystem no longer allows a 2-1 splitter to be dropped into the video-out system. Thank you all for your positive feedback about enjoying this PowerToy.