A quick way to switch PC's with your Pocket PC
I’ve been switching back and forth between my Windows XP and Windows Vista drives, and will on occasion switch laptops. I just upgraded to an HP nc6400 from my older nc6220. One of the things that always frustrated me when I did this is the partnership issues in getting my device to sync correctly, ultimately requiring me to hard reset my Pocket PC and start from scratch. Well, it’s been three weeks since I had to hard reset due to finding the registry setting:
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\ActiveSync\Partners
If you look through the subkeys (contained in {}), if you scroll through you should see a key called Name. Find the old subkey you no longer need (again, contained in {}), and just delete the whole subkey. Then, go to the new subkey, find the Name key, rename it to Windows PC, soft reset the device, and you should be syncing fine without having to hard reset the device each time.
For example, on my device, there were three subkeys under Partners. One for my Exchange sync, and two for each of the computers I was syncing with. The first subkey was my Direct Push settings (scrolling through you should see keys for domain, EmaiAddress, etc.). The second subkey had a Name of Windows PC, the third subkey had a Name of Windows PC 2. I deleted the entire subkey for Windows PC (several subkeys within the primary), then renamed the third, reset my device, and have been syncing fine. Now I don’t waste time hard resetting just because I swap PC’s.