Windows Phone Thoughts: One for the Plus Column - Pocket Plus 2.0 by Spb Software House

Exploring Your Pocket PC


Figure 9: The basic File Explorer

The Pocket PC comes with the File Explorer applet, which suffers from some extremely limited functionality. For example, it has no method for moving up a folder or for looking at file properties. Figure 9 shows the barebones File Explorer window.


Figure 10: Adding some much needed flair…

Pocket Plus adds some useful options to the standard File Explorer, as shown in the Settings screen in Figure 10. It provides both the “moving up a folder” and “looking at file properties” capabilities described as missing in the previous paragraph. Pocket Plus also adds ZIP file functionality and storage card formatting to File Explorer.


Figure 11: The changes are subtle, but significant.

Figure 11 shows File Explorer with the Pocket Plus enhancements. Notice the “folder up” icon in the top menu bar.


Figure 12: Zip right through all your file management tasks.

And now the “tap and hold” menu for a file includes the abilities to add the file to a ZIP file and to view the file’s properties.

These enhancements won’t turn the standard File Explorer into a replacement for a dedicated third party product such as Resco File Explorer. But if your requirements for a file explorer are fairly simple, Pocket Plus provides very functional enhancements to the standard File Explorer. They may be enough to make a third party file explorer replacement unnecessary for you.