How to select default PIM client in WM5 (Goodlink/Outlook)?

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Hi there, I was wondering if somebody would know how to change the default PIM client to be used in WM5?

Detail of the problem:

I sync my Wizard locally at home with Outlook 03 (Emails and Contacts). Then, I installed GoodLink which sync with my work's Exchange.
After the installation of Goodlink, both the "Calendar" and the "Contacts" softkeys, when you press them, are now replaced by "GoodCalendar" and "GoodContacts".

I use my personal Contact list that is at my home's Outlook mostly. So knowing the 112/113 registry trick, I modified the "Contacts" softkey on the today screen to bring up the bulit-in Outlook's Contacts again. However, on the dialer/dial pad screen, the Contacts softkey (on the left), if I press it, it would still bring up GoodContacts.

This makes me think that there is a setting in WM5 for a default PIM client - wether the built in one or something else. This is really annoying me because I use Goodlink only for Email. All other Calendar and Contacts etc are on my outlook...

Any help is greatly appreciated. Thanks.

Ken

Can you not sync diectly with the Exchange server instead of using the add on software, believe there is an option for this in Activesync

You could go to HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Shell\Rai in a regeditor and edit the relevant keys.

Thanks for the reply.

I just checked the contents under Rai in the registry. They look un-modified to me.

Example: The "1" in :MSCONTACTS still reads :MSPOUTLOOK -contacts
"1" in :MSCALENDAR is still :MSPOUTLOOK -calendar

If it ain't these, could it be something else?

Thanks.

Ken

Originally Posted by kgmm

Thanks for the reply.

I just checked the contents under Rai in the registry. They look un-modified to me.

Example: The "1" in :MSCONTACTS still reads :MSPOUTLOOK -contacts
"1" in :MSCALENDAR is still :MSPOUTLOOK -calendar

If it ain't these, could it be something else?

Thanks.

Ken

And what do you have under :MSPOUTLOOK ?
BTW on mine there are no "-" so its ":MSPOUTLOOK contacts" and ":MSPOUTLOOK calendar".

I don't know why I typed the "-" in there, but it's not there.

For :MSPOUTLOOK, "0" is MSPOutlook, "1" is poutlook.exe, "2" is 1, "3" is 0, "4" is 00 A8 F9 B0 11 06 C6 01

Thanks again.

Ken

Originally Posted by wilesd

Can you not sync diectly with the Exchange server instead of using the add on software, believe there is an option for this in Activesync

FYI Goodlink is an instant push email service - it is a little different then what ActiveSync on exchange can offer (as of now at least).

After you install Goodlink on the handheld, basically it has it's own entire Outlook-Like engine. It's own calendar, contact, notes, email, tasks which I think the interface is better than the built in one.

Again, the problem is, let say Contacts, I have one from GoodLink, one from built-in outlook. Right now everything is mapped to the Goodlink's engine. On the Today Screen, I can use some button mapping software to override the hardware and soft keys. BUT, on the dial-pad screen, the softkey on the left - "Contacts" - would still bring up GoodLink's contacts.

I tried a bunch of button mapping software that are currently available for WM5 but none can fix this.

Also, another strange thing is, after you install GoodLink, it DID NOT CREATE 112/113 keys to map the softkeys - those registry don't exist.
So it must have done it by some other method - like specifiying a default client...

Ken

Have you actually checked the shortcuts that those programs refer to. I think the POutlook shortcut points to the goodCalendar program not the outlook program. If you changed the link it may work. I hacked around with this on another device running good but have not tried it on the wizzard.