Hope you aren't fed up with the hx4700 tweaks ;) Here's another tweak

In the meantime, PDAMania.hu forum user pdafun has pointed my attention to an alternative, even cleaner solution to the services.exe problem. Get a registry editor (please consult this all-in-one roundup on registry editors, go to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\ Services\ NavPointService and delete it entirely.

To do this, do the following. In this mini-tutorial, I assume you use Resco Registry Editor (my registry editor of choice). Note that, by default, it uses a one-frame only mode as can be seen in here. I recommend going straight to Menu/View and clicking Show Tree View (see screenshot here) so that the lower frame is also displayed.

Once the registry editor is installed and started, click the + ( ) icon on the left of HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE; the result will be as can be seen in this screenshot.

Now, scroll down to Services and do the same to it as to ; this will result in the subtree under Services to be seen as can be seen in here.

Now, highlight NavPointService and wait for the context menu to be displayed. Choose Delete in it as can be seen in this screenshot. Choose Delete all in the dialog that is displayed after this.

Now, suspend / resume the device so that the Registry changes are surely flushed to the storage flash ROM. If it isn't, try doing some other things for several minutes before resetting the Pocket PC. Sometimes, even if you suspend the machine, the changes aren't flushed back to the storage Flash. If nothing works, consider switching to File-based registry; for example, using tweaks2k2.

Reset the PDA.

This hack has three advantages:

1. much easier to be initially done than the file system-based hack (that is, if you aren’t afraid of using registry editors – as this modification is really easy, you shouldn’t be)
2. after you install additional games, you don’t end up having to move the new link files to the alternative Games directory
3. the CPU usage of services.exe is 0% in this case, as opposed to the ~0.5% with an empty Games directory.

I will also publish a new, updated version of all these tips (and everything else that needs to be known about these all – for example, I’ll also elaborate on the well-known Cache tweaks – Chapter 3 in the original article) in an “all-in-one WM5 Tweaks for the hx4700” article. It will be published after I release the Compact Flash fix.