I am trying to query the current system volume of the device when I start my
application so that I can display an icon in the app if the OS is on mute.
However, when I call mixerGetNumDevs() I get 0!
How can it be that my device has 0 sound mixers?

Sorry to disturb you with this, but I'm going crazy with this :
I'm using the IOCTL_DISK_DEVICE_INFO, and I always get a wrong
parameter error code.
I checked everythink more than twice, and I can't figure out what I am

In windows ce only 32 process can be run at a time what if 33 process is
started what will happend.

Hello to all,
I read that Windows Mobile 5.0 has POOM databases on persistent
storage, and that it uses the EDB.
I want to enable this feature on my custom built Windows CE 5.0 runtime

I want to create a simple TS client on some older desktops we have in the
office. I'm trying to build a CEPC and have followed the tutorial provided my
Microsoft. I do a build, make the image, attach the null modem cable to the
serial port on both the development workstation and ...

In normal windows virtual memeory is backed up in hard disk with file name
pagefile.sys. What about in Win CE how is this being managed .

VirtualCopy(lpv, PHYSADDR>>8, SIZE, PAGE_READWRITE | PAGE_NOCACHE |
PAGE_PHYSICAL);
why are we shifting the PHYSADDR  by 8 times right .What is signficance of it

Is there any way to distinguish between onscreen keyboard and normal
keyboard ? I am writing a code to detect whether key is pressed from
Onscreen keyboard or normal keyboard ? Is layout or somewhat other
thing distiguish between them ?

Having problems with my remote tools, I've tried to remove, and install
WinCE 5 again, but getting an error when installing WinCE 5.
There comes an error dialog box saying something like ( my dialog box is in
Danish, so I try to translate)

iI want to run avi file in WinCE which i have done using DirectShow.But
i am facing one problemi.e. it runs the avi file of only WinCE system.I
am working on Windows OS and using Platform Builder as an environment
for WinCE.Could anyone plz tell me how can i copy avi file on WinCE

I have a program that makes a web request and write the file  to device by
binaryWriter.. There is no problem with smaller files(about 18K) but when i
try bigger files, catch block throw out an exception like "could not find
resource assembly"... I couldn't find the reason...

How can we shutdown a targer device or an Emulator for example through code.
I read to reboot a targer we can  write a simple console application t using
KernelIOControl and IOCTL_HAL_REBOOT..
So how do we do for shutting down a targer ?

I am working in WinCE application. In my application I need to show message
in a Edit Box with different font(ie)Some letter in Arial, some in Times New
Roman, etc... Edit box takes the dialog box font. Is it possible to have
sigle edit box in which we can have different font ...

I'm trying to make an ioctl() call to an FMD driver, however, I have
been unable to get a handle on the driver. From what I can figure out,
the driver name should be "DSK1:", however, the name does not show up
under any of the entries in [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE/Drivers/Active], nor

I am using the undocumented UnregisterFunc1 along with RegisterHotKey
to try to capture when hardware buttons are pressed.
Could there be a reason why my hardware buttons are not generating
anything?