# Resco Explorer 2008

Getting started

File Operations

Favorites

Network

FTP

Recycle Bin

Registry Editor.

Today Plugin

Settings

## Getting started

Requirements

CAB installation steps

EXE installation steps

Uninstallation

How to order this application

Registration

I need a new registration code

When registration fails

### Requirements

- Pocket PC 2000/2002, Windows Mobile 2003 (SE) based Pocket PC, Windows Mobile 5.0 and Windows Mobile 6.0, 6.1 Classic and Professional
- Microsoft ActiveSync 3.6 or later (for desktop installation only)
- 1.5 MB free memory in device

Resco Explorer 2008 offers:

Today Plugin with “Running application manager”, Network browser, FTP-add in, Registry editor, Recycle Bin, Strong file encryption, ZIP compression, Quick search, Built-in viewer, File types highlighting, Customizable startup folder and more ...

### CAB installation steps

Download the appropriate installation CAB file (Each component must be installed separately):

- Main application:
  rescoexplorer_p.ARM.CAB
- Registry Add-in:
  registrymui_p.arm.cab
- FTP Add-in:
  ftpaddinmui_p.arm.cab
- Today Plugin:
  retodaymui_p.arm.cab

Insert your device into the cradle or plug in the synchronization cable and check if ActiveSync is connected

Copy the cab file onto your device (using ActiveSync Explorer)

Run the cab file on your device.

### EXE installation steps

Download the appropriate installation EXE file (English or Multilingual) from the Explorer 2008 download section.

Insert your device into the cradle or plug in the synchronization cable and check if ActiveSync is connected

Run the executable file you just downloaded (rescoexplorer_p.exe) to start the installation.

Follow the instructions and select the plug-ins and other components that you want to install

### Uninstallation

Use the common uninstallation procedure.

Go to “ › Settings › System tab › Remove programs”, then select Resco Explorer (Plugins must be uninstalled in the same manner separately) and tap on [Remove]

### How to order an application

Do not pay until you are reasonably sure in your selection. (A refund may be difficult.)

Online delivery of Resco Explorer 2008 licenses and related product keys is available for credit card orders placed via the Internet. You can register this application following the buy link “Menu › Options › Registration…”.

Or visit www.resco.net/pocketpc/explorer/, go to the Purchase page.

- Click the Add to cart icon next to the product that you want to purchase
- Enter the quantity of the product you want to purchase
- Fill in the payment information and your Name from "Start>Settings>Owner information" and Checkout

After placing an order you will receive the registration key via email, which you will need during the registration process.

Our online payment system is powered by Handango.com. Handango guarantees the highest level of security for your confidential information while you shop. When making purchases, all of your personal information including the credit card number, name and address are encrypted, so it cannot be read as the information travels over the Internet. Handango guarantees that all transactions you make at Handango are 100% secure.

### Registration

Resco Explorer 2008 comes with a free 7-day trial. The trial version offers full functionality, but it will stop working after 7 days. After the trial expiration you have to either purchase the unlock key or install a higher version trial.

Once you have purchased the full product, you will receive an email with the unlock code which will allow unlimited use of the purchased version of the product. You will also be entitled to free upgrades within one year from the date of the purchase. The prolongation for the next year costs 50% of the product's actual price.

- Tap “Menu › Options › Registration…” (devices with Operating Systems prior to Windows Mobile 5 File › Registration)
- This takes you to the registration screen
- [Owner] field should already be filled out with the name of the device’s owner.
- If the field is empty or it doesn't correspond the Owner name you entered to the purchasing form go to "Start>Settings>Owner information" and fill the Name field.
- Please note that this must be exactly the same as the owner name you received from our registration center.
- Into the [Code] field enter your registration code as you received it from our registration center.
- Tap enter or [OK] button.

### I need a new registration code

All legal users have the opportunity to download updated versions and get registration codes for free during the 1st year from the purchase date. Later, you can take advantage of a 50% discount for the next year's updates.

Retrieve registration code: www.resco.net/regcode.asp.

### When registration fails

1. Make sure your owner name exactly matches the name you sent to our registration center. The Owner name is case sensitive.
2. After upgrading the Explorer to the newer version visit the Automatized code resend service www.resco.net/regcode.asp to receive the correct code for the updated version.
3. Use default keyboard when typing
4. Do not use any spaces inside your name if not neccessary.
5. Contact our support centre at support@resco.net

## File Operations

Open Files

Basic Operations

Searching for files

File Compression

File Encryption

Favorites

Network

FTP

Recycle Bin

Registry

Virtual Folder

Today Plugin

### Open Files

Tap on a file to open it using the associated application

By tapping and holding your stylus on the file you bring up a popup menu.

- Tapping “Open › Open” opens the file using the associated application
- Tapping “Open › Open with” opens a menu with all the applications, where you can choose the one to open the file with.
- Tapping “View…” opens the file using the built-in viewer.

The built-in Viewer can be used to view files in TXT, BIN or HEX formats, as well as JPEG, GIF, BMP and PNG graphic formats

By checking Always use this program to open this file type you associate this file type with this application.

### Basic Operations

#### Copying, Moving files and Creation of shortcuts

- select the source files or folders (you can use Multi-selection Mode in the “Menu › Edit”)
- display the popup menu by tapping and holding the stylus on these files.
- select Copy or Cut
- select the destination folder
- display the popup menu in this folder and choose Paste or Paste Shortcut

#### Deleting a file or folder

- Display the popup menu on this file/folder and choose Delete.

#### Renaming a file or folder

- Select the desired file/folder, display the popup menu and tap Rename.
- Type the new name and press [Enter] on the keyboard.

#### Creating a new folder

- Locate the folder in which you wish to create a new folder.
- Tap Menu › New Folder.
- Type the desired name and tap [Enter].

### Searching for files

#### Quick search

Start by typing in the name of the file on your keyboard, a small dialog box should appear below the active file window allowing quick search for file names. The cursor jumps to the next file name starting with the letters you typed. By pressing the cursor upwards or downwards, you can jump to the next or previous match. The box is automatically closed when you start another action.

#### Search for desired file

- select “Menu › Find ...” from the menu
- enter the file name (you can use wildcards *;?) and the folder where to search
- press [Find]

#### Find text in files

- select “Menu › Find ...” from the menu
- enter the file name (you can use wildcards *;?)
- select “Menu › Find text”
- enter the text you are searching for
- press [Find text]

### File Compression

File compression can be used to increase the storage space of any storage device. Resco Explorer 2008 uses ZIP algorithm that is PC compatible, so you can extract archives created on a desktop PC and vice-versa.

Resco Explorer 2008 also enables you to extract RAR archives.

#### Compression of files

- select the files you want to compress
- display the popup menu by tapping and holding the stylus on the selected files and choose “Compress...”
- enter the archive name
- Select the level of compression and the type of encryption depending on personal preference
- tap [OK] or [Add] button

#### Extraction of files

- select the archive (zip file, rar file) you want to extract
- display the popup menu by tapping and holding the stylus on the selected
- files and choose “ZIP Archive › Extract To...”
- specify the destination folder
- specify the overwrite mode
- tap [Extract]

#### Adding or moving files to an existing archive

- select the files you want to add
- display the popup menu by tapping and holding the stylus on these files
- and tap “Copy” or “Cut”
- select the destination archive or its subfolder
- display the popup menu on this folder and choose “Paste”.

### File Encryption

Normally, the following algorithms are installed on your Pocket PC: Base

Cryptographic Provider with RC2 (40bit) or DES (56bit). Power users can install an Enhanced Cryptographic Provider (see www.resco.net) with stronger algorithms such as RC2-128bits, DES-56bits, 3DES TWO KEY–112bits, 3DES–168bits.

#### Encryption of files

- select the files you want to encrypt
- display the popup menu by tapping and holding the stylus on the selected files and choose “Encrypt...”
- press [Settings ...] if you wish to set the cryptographic provider or encryption algorithm
- type and confirm the password and tap [Done]

#### Decryption of files

- select encrypted files you want to decrypt
- display the popup menu by tapping and holding the stylus and choose “Decrypt...”
- type the password and press [Done]

#### About desktop PC support

You can install a Windows 95/98/NT/2000/XP shell extension during the installation. It allows you to encrypt/decrypt files by using Microsoft File Explorer directly on your desktop PCs.

## Favorites

Favorites are folders which you can easily open by tapping the [Favorites] icon at the top right side of the screen.

#### Adding favorites

- Select the folder you want to add to the favorites
- tap and hold your finger or stylus on the folder and select “Send to>Favorites” menu item

- If you already have the “Add to Favorites” toolbar icon you can easily select the folder you want to add and tap on the “Add to Favorites” toolbar icon

#### Deleting favorites

- Tap on the Favorites icon in the upper right-hand corner of the screen or tap on the Favorites icon on the toolbar and tap on Edit Favorites
- Tap and hold on the item you want to delete and tap on Delete

## Network

In order to access the network you must have a network card. You can't access the network using Active Sync only.

#### Map a network drive

- Press “Menu › File › Network › Map Drive”
- wait while the system searches for network computers
- select the desired computer and display the list of its disks (press [+])
- select the disk you wish to map
- press the [Share] button

#### Unmap a network drive

- Press “Menu › File › Network › Unmap Drive”
- select the connection you wish to disconnect
- press the [Disconnect] button

## FTP

#### Creation of a new FTP session

- press “My FTP Locations” at the beginning of the root (If your tree does not display the registry root, open the Option dialog and check “My FTP location” in “Menu › Options › Add-Ins” )
- press “>Menu>New FTP Session…”
- specify session details and press [OK]
- tap on the desired session

#### Deleting an FTP session

tap and hold stylus on the desired session and in the pop-up menu press “Delete”

## Recycle Bin

Resco Explorer now moves deleted files into a special folder “Recycle Bin” instead of immediate deletion.

#### Restoring files from the Recycle Bin

- press “Recycle Bin” at the beginning of the root or on the toolbar if you have enabled it
- tap and hold your stylus on the desired file(s) and in the pop-up menu press “Restore”

#### Emptying the Recycle Bin (3 options)

- If you have selected the Recycle Bin icon from the Root tap “Menu › Empty Recycle Bin”
- or tap and hold your stylus on the Recycle Bin icon in the Root and press the [Empty Recycle Bin]
- In “Menu › Option › Add-Ins…” choose the [Recycle Bin] tab and press [Empty Recycle Bin]

#### Disabling/Enabling the Recycle Bin

In “Menu › Options › Add-Ins…” choose [Recycle Bin] tab check/uncheck “Do not move files to Recycle Bin”

## Registry Editor

The Registry Editor is for power users only. Deleting or changing some critical keys can cause your device to crash. Use it carefully.

The Registry editor allows you to export, import, view or modify the registry keys.

If your tree does not display the registry root, open the Option dialog and check “My Registry” in “Menu › Options › Add-Ins”

## Virtual Folders

#### Functionality:

- Virtual folders enable you quick access to the files of the same type e.g. documents, images, music files, videos, encrypted files and other which you can define yourself.
- If you open a virtual folder, you will see all the files of the same type from the whole main memory and also from the storage card.

#### Creating virtual folders

- To create a new virtual folder which will show all the files of the type you want it to show, go to the root of the virtual folder, tap on "Menu>New Folder".
- Enter the name of the folder in the [Name] field and in the [File extensions] field enter the extensions you want to see in the newly created virtual folder. You can separate the extensions with a coma ",".
- To access the virtual folder, tap [Up] until you reach the "Root" folder.

## Today Plugin

#### Functionality:

- Check your battery status and the free storage/memory directly on the Today screen.
- Launch your favorite applications and documents with a single tap.
- Browse through the storage card with a single tap.
- Manage running applications with the Built-In Task Manager
- Get the detailed storage properties.
- Use arrows for smart movement

#### Settings

You can access options of the Today Plugin by tapping the small icon in the left corner of the Plugin. Here you can change skins, items in the Today Plugin, or download new skins.

## Settings

General

Add-Ins options

Customize options

Keyboard Map

### General

There are a lot of options you can modify to increase the comfort of usage. To access the option menu tap “Menu › Options › General...”

#### General Options

Check [Last opened folder] if you want to start the application with the last opened folder or specify a concrete folder

Check [Specific folder] if you prefer to start the application with folder you specified in the blue box below. To set which folder to open at start, tap on the [...] blue box and select a folder. The application will now start from this folder.

#### Other Options

Check [Enable folder auto-refresh] to see any changes made in the folder automatically.

Check [Open Folder Shortcut with Resco Explorer] if you want to create folder shortcuts that will automatically open this application instead of the built-in MS File Explorer.

#### Browser Options

With the first option checked you can hide files with the following extensions: .DLL, .CPL. .DRV, .HTP

Check the [Hide hidden files] option if you do not need to access system or hidden files.

Check [Hide files in ROM] if you do not need to view files in ROM

Check [Hide folder] to hide all folders on your device.

Check [Hide file extensions] if you do not want to view the extensions of files

Please note that hiding files accelerates your work with Explorer, especially if you need to access folders with large amounts of files.

#### File Settings

In this option you can specify whether the application shall prompt you to confirm actions such as delete or overwrite before actually performing them.

You can also choose if the send to operation will copy or move file(s)

#### Viewer Settings

Check [Use internal file viewer] if you want to view files using the built-in viewer.

Check [Use external file viewer] option if you wish to use a different viewer. To do this you must specify the respective path.

Check use tap to [view selected file] if you wish to view files simply by tapping them with a stylus

Check use tap to [open selected files] if you wish to open files simply by tapping them with a stylus. Files will open in the associated application. Association can be created using the “Open” or “OpenDoc” method.

#### Add-Ins options

To access the option menu tap “Menu › Options › Add-Ins...”

Setup for following Add-ins: ZIP, Recycle Bin, Network, Registry, FTP and File Associations

### Customize options

To access the option menu tap “Menu › Options › Customize...”

Setup for the following: Skin options, List View options, View options, Colors options, Toolbar customization and Keyboard Shortcuts

#### General Options

From the top “drop down box“ you can quick set from one of the preset modes or you can choose the Custom mode and set your preferences

Check [Enable Touch Scrolling] to use touch scrolling.

Check [Letter Navigation Scroller] to enable the letter navigation scroller, which enables you quick access to files which names start with the letter you choose.

Check [Auto hide scroller enabled] if you would like for the scroller to be hidden, but active.

Check [Show Treeview] if you would like for the Treeview to appear in the upper part of the screen.

Check [Use vertical windows splitter] if you would like for the Treeview to appear in the left part of the screen.

Check [Double tap activation] if you would like to open folders and execute files with a double tap.

#### Skin Options

Here you can setup which skin to use.

Set the left soft-key menu to either Up/Switch, Action Popup, Open Menu or View Menu.

Set the font size and type.

#### Listview Options

Set the List View options to either Reports, Small Icons, Large Icons or Details.

Check [Striped List Items] to stripe the folders and files showing (blue or white) for better orientation.

#### Colors

Check [Highlight specific file types] for specified file types to become highlighted.

To add a new file type, tap on [+] and enter the extension of the file type to be highlighted.

To remove a file type, tap on [-].

To assign a color tap on the file type and then choose a color from the pop-up menu on the right hand side under the [-] box.

#### Customize Toolbar

Check or un-check boxes with actions you would like to have on the toolbar.

You can visualize up to 13 icons on the toolbar.

Check [Show Toolbar] for the toolbar to appear.

Check [Large Icons] to enlarge the icons.

If you check the [Large Icons] checkbox, you might notice that some checked icons are disabled.

This is because the toolbar's width is limited and only 7 icons can be visible on the toolbar in the large Icons mode.

#### Keyboard Shortcuts

You can map the hardware buttons behavior and assign various action shortcuts.

#### Keyboard Map

Key | Action
Ctrl+C | Copy
Ctrl+V | Paste
Ctrl+X | Cut
Ctrl+A | Select All
Ctrl+Q | Exit
Return | Open File
Delete | Delete File