Friday, June 24, 2011

Missing personal certificates on a pocket pc and my solution

I do find a fascination with old technology and the many ways one can use old PDAs and cell phones.  Recently I acquired an Audiovox PPC 6600 with Windows Mobile 2003. It came with a wifi SD card, Belkin wireless keyboard and the charging cradle can charge a second battery.

Loaded it up with Opera Mini and soon I was surfing the web at home using a Bell router.   The connection speed was good, though, as yet I have issues with the size of the storage and memory.  I can't play audio or video yet.  I might find a way.

So, in going back and forth between the wifi and another SD storage card and switching the batteries, I somehow lost the settings and it began demanding a personal certificate before connecting.  I searched the web for solutions and none seemed easy or fit the same circumstances as my problem.  Downloading this program or that so I could modify the registry was just too complicated.  Then, I decided to delete the settings for the connection and start over.  Presto! I am now reconnected.

Now, back to fun with Bluetooth.