Lesson 2: Configuring Mobile Devices

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Importing Pictures and Videos from Your Device

If your Windows Mobile–powered device has a camera, you can import still pictures and video

clips from the device to your computer. Connect your device to the computer, and WMDC

starts automatically. If synchronization starts at this point, first allow it to finish, and then click

Pictures, Music, And Video. You can then click Import Pictures/Video From Your Device, and

pictures and video are imported automatically.

Working with Sync Center

As described earlier in this lesson, Sync Center provides an overview of all of the partnerships

that have been created with the computer. This includes partnerships between Windows

Mobile–powered devices and the computer. Sync Center provides information about the part-

nership, including synchronization status and error information, and you can use it to per-

form simple tasks such as starting and stopping synchronization, browsing the files on your

device, and opening WMDC.

You can access WMDC from Sync Center, provided you have already created a partnership

with the device. To do this, click the Sync Center notification area icon (green circle with

arrows), and double-click the Windows Mobile Powered Device icon in Windows Sync Center.

Adding and Removing Programs on a Mobile Device

If you install a program on your computer, you can also install it on your mobile device, pro-

vided the device is compatible with the software. Be careful, however, that this does not breach

the licensing conditions for using the program.

You can install a program on your device that is already installed on your computer by open-

ing WMDC (or connecting the device so WMDC starts automatically), clicking Programs And

Services, clicking More, and clicking Add/Remove Programs. You then select the program

from the list that appears, as shown in Figure 13-23, and click OK. Note that the names of the

programs have been changed in this figure for copyright reasons. Some simple programs are

implemented by a single .exe file, and you can use File Management in WMDC to copy this

from the computer and paste it into the Program Files folder on the device. However, this will

not work for most software packages.