Boot suddenly takes longer, shows WinCENotify, and keys don't lock automatically anymore

[Guest notaliberal]

I've no idea what happened. All of a sudden today, my SDA started acting really strange.

Now when I boot it, it takes slightly longer, and right after my custom splash shows you see a title bar at the top labeled WinCENotify. That goes away, the screen goes white for about 10 seconds, and then the homescreen paints REALLY slowly, and then all SEEMS well.

I have maniac's autokeylock installed, never had any problems. Now, however, after this new development, the keys no longer lock themselves after bootup UNTIL AFTER I HAVE LOCKED/UNLOCKED them myself.

[edit]Okay, apparently they dont lock at all until Ive started the keylock config utility and exited back out of it.[/edit]

Ive been reg editing all morning, which I imagine had something to do with it, but I have pretty much revisited all the things I changed and nothing seems to help. All I was trying to do today was stop that darn "storage card2" bug from happening. I added an entry into HKLM\System\StorageManager\ called PNPWaitIODelay, and made the value 10000. Now I've gone and deleted that value, but the darn thing still behaves strangely.

I REALLY REALLY REALLY don't want to do a hard reset. I've never done one, and I don't want to have to start fooling around trying to get everything back the way it was; Re-installing programs, uploading homescreens, all my reg edits, etc.

Has anybody ever seen anything like this or have any ideas as to what else I can try?

ANY suggestions GREATLY appreciated!

If nothing else, can anybody give me some insight as to just how big a pain it can be to restore everything after a hard reset? I've got all sorts of stuff installed on the SD card, including many programs I have paid for. Is there a way to make recovery after a hard reset less painful or time consuming?

Thanks in advance,

Jeff

Edited August 31, 2006 by notaliberal

[Guest pavankp]

I've no idea what happened. All of a sudden today, my SDA started acting really strange.

Now when I boot it, it takes slightly longer, and right after my custom splash shows you see a title bar at the top labeled WinCENotify. That goes away, the screen goes white for about 10 seconds, and then the homescreen paints REALLY slowly, and then all SEEMS well.

I have maniac's autokeylock installed, never had any problems. Now, however, after this new development, the keys no longer lock themselves after bootup UNTIL AFTER I HAVE LOCKED/UNLOCKED them myself.

[edit]Okay, apparently they dont lock at all until Ive started the keylock config utility and exited back out of it.[/edit]

Ive been reg editing all morning, which I imagine had something to do with it, but I have pretty much revisited all the things I changed and nothing seems to help. All I was trying to do today was stop that darn "storage card2" bug from happening. I added an entry into HKLM\System\StorageManager\ called PNPWaitIODelay, and made the value 10000. Now I've gone and deleted that value, but the darn thing still behaves strangely.

I REALLY REALLY REALLY don't want to do a hard reset. I've never done one, and I don't want to have to start fooling around trying to get everything back the way it was; Re-installing programs, uploading homescreens, all my reg edits, etc.

Has anybody ever seen anything like this or have any ideas as to what else I can try?

ANY suggestions GREATLY appreciated!

If nothing else, can anybody give me some insight as to just how big a pain it can be to restore everything after a hard reset? I've got all sorts of stuff installed on the SD card, including many programs I have paid for. Is there a way to make recovery after a hard reset less painful or time consuming?

Thanks in advance,

Jeff

I remember having this problem a long time ago. Search the forums here for "CheckNotifications". That is a Pocket PC utility which can run on your smartphone and help you delete the redundant notifications that are bothering you. There must be a few posts about it on here...

Good luck with the search!

Pavan

[Guest notaliberal]

Well, looks like I've taken acare of it.

I reinstalled autolock, but more importantly I remembered the reg setting I needed to change back.

I had reduced the "Duration" value for the startup image to 1000 (1 second), which is why I was seeing things I would not otherwise see. Perhaps that is also what broke autokeylock, perhaps not. I'll probably never know. :D

OH well, things are back to normal now, and I didn't have to hard reset. :D

Yea.