You might not want DockWare to start while you’re running a GPS program like TomTom, Ostia, GPSDash, Pocket Streets, or Mapopolis, or while watching a video or listening to audio with Windows Media. On a Windows Mobile Pocket PC or Smartphone, you can prevent DockWare from running when you don’t want it to by using a Blocklist file.

You can install a newer version of DockWare, or upgrade to DockWare Pro even if you have DockWare pre-installed on an HP iPAQ. Just run the installation file as you normally would. Upgrading to DockWare Pro will give you more features; updating DockWare will give you the latest build, with minor improvements and bug fixes.

You can install DockWare Free and DockWare Pro to either main memory or a storage card. Pictures with DockWare Pro: With DockWare Pro, you can select the storage card using the Picture Folders menu pick. Then just move your pictures to your storage card.

On a Pocket PC: tap and hold your stylus on your screen when DockWare is running. On a Smartphone: press the right-most softkey. DockWare Pro has more configuration options than the free version of DockWare.

With DockWare Pro 2.0, you can change the picture order using the Display Options menu pick. DockWare Pro is a free upgrade for all registered users of DockWare Pro 1.0. If you’re using the free version of DockWare, you can change the order of the pictures by deleting files then re-adding them in the order you want them to display.

DockWare uses the format you have set in your device’s Regional Settings to display the time. To change this, choose Start->Settings->System->Regional Settings->Time. This will change the time display throughout your device.

DockWare 2.0.2 fully supports the all high resolution Windows Mobile Pocket PC and Smartphone displays, including VGA and landscape. To keep downloads small, we didn’t include high-resolution images with the DockWare and DockWare Pro installations.

Just use your hardware down button to get to the next picture.

DockWare and DockWare Pro can be started on your Smartphone in one of two ways: DockWare and DockWare Pro will automatically start running when the Smartphone is charging and has been idle for a few minutes.

DockWare will position any pictures that are smaller than your screen in the upper left corner of your device’s screen, with any space not used by your picture filled in with DockWare’s background color (black in DockWare, configurable in DockWare Pro).

DockWare is available for: Windows Mobile 6.5 Windows Mobile 6 Classic, Standard and Professional Windows Mobile 5.0 Pocket PCs and Smartphones Smartphone 2003 (Windows CE 4.20) or higher Pocket PC 2002 (Windows CE 3.0.11171) or higher Palm OS 4.

On a Windows Mobile PDA using DockWare Free: Your pictures need to be stored in the \Program Files\DockWare folder on the PDA. On an iPAQ using the version of DockWare included with the device: Your pictures need to be stored in \My Device\My Documents\My Pictures.

This message is just part of 2 of the pictures included with your installation of DockWare. Just use Active Sync Explore on your Windows PC or File Explorer on your device to delete these pictures from the DockWare program installation folder.

On a Windows Mobile device, just change the picture files in the \Program Files\DockWare folder on your Pocket PC. You can add any pictures in bitmap (.bmp) or jpeg (.jpg) format, and delete any of our pictures you don’t want to see.

DockWare 2.0.3 was released in July 2006 for Windows Mobile Smartphones only. This upgrade adds image scaling for all supported image types. Other updates for Windows Mobile 5.0 users include support for displaying images from storage cards, as well as a fix for the problem with CPU usage.

Register DockWare Pro by going to the About menu in the program. Tap+Hold your Pocket PC’s screen, press the right softkey button on your Windows Mobile Smartphone, or press the Menu button on your PalmOS handheld.

DockWare’s auto-start component can cause Letter Recognizer to have problem with two-stroke letters (i, accented letters, etc.) If you would like to fix the problem, follow the steps below. Unfortunately these steps also disable the code that allows DockWare to start up on its own when the device is idle.

If DockWare (Free and Pro) cannot display an image because there is not enough memory or the file is corrupted, you will see the error message “File Load Error” and no picture will load. One of the most common causes of this error is using images that are too large to fit into your PDA’s memory while DockWare is running, such as high-resolution images from digital cameras.

Earlier versions of DockWare had an issue where images that failed to load would lead to memory issues on Windows Mobile 5 Pocket PCs and Smartphones. This no longer happens in the latest versions of DockWare.

Unfortunately, while DockWare does randomize the order of the images, it does not create a new random order every time the program runs.

DockWare may display the error message “No Bitmaps Found” if there are no picture files to display, or if the pictures are in are unsupported picture formats. Valid Picture Formats: Only JPG, JPEG, and BMP images will work for Pocket PC and Smartphone Progressive scan JPG/JPEG images will sometimes not work properly on any devices.