Removing Welcome Message / Doctors Appointment on Pocket PC 2003

Posted on October 28, 2008. Filed under: Handheld Tangents |

By: Brenton Blawat

How to Remove Welcome Message / the Doctor’s Appointment on Pocket PC 2003

Probably one of the most frustrating features during a cold boot sequence of any device running Pocket PC 2003, is the Welcome Message / Doctor’s appointment. Not only is it annoying, but it completely halts all automated installations on the device until the User’s rescheduling of the doctor’s appointment. This will explain how to stop that annoying message from displaying.

1. Open a New Notepad Document

2. Save the blank document as: Welcome.Not

Copying the file to the Handheld

3. Copy this file to the handheld device in one of the following locations:

Root of SD Card
Root of the handheld directory structure ‘\’

Note: If copying to the root of the device there is a strong possibility that the file will be erased on a cold boot. It is recommended to find a method to restore files upon a cold boot to the device. (E.G. below)

Making the Doctors Appointment go away on Symbol Devices

1. Open Notepad

2. Create a new file named welcomenot.cpy

3. Place the following line as the first line to the file:

\Application\Welcome.NOT > \Welcome.NOT

4. Save the file.

5. Copy welcomenot.cpy and Welcome.Not to \Application\ directory

On a cold boot, the Symbol Device will read the welcomenot.cpy file in the root of \Application\ and copy the welcome.not file from \Application\ to the ‘\’ root directory.