Calnot.exe wakeup event set on time change

Bhentai

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Feb 24, 2010, 1:24:01 PM2/24/10

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Hi,

we are developping under CE 5.0 and CE 6.0 and we noticed that our device
would wakeup on their own. We did a little bit of investigation and found out
that an application called "calnot.exe" was the cause of all this. This
application sets a event in seven days at midnight. each time the clock is
changed and set it periodically. What is the purpose of this application and
why is it doing this? We want to find a way to disable this bad feautre in
our OS design by either some sysgen, registry key or something convenient.

Bruce Eitman [eMVP]

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Feb 24, 2010, 2:03:37 PM2/24/10

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A quick look in PB Help shows that this is part of POOM. My guess is that
it periodically checks the calendar to see if there are any events that need
to be handled for the next 7 days.

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Bhentai

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Feb 24, 2010, 5:13:02 PM2/24/10

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Ok,
but is there a way to configure in PB or in the image how calnot.exe behaves?

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Bruce Eitman [eMVP]

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Feb 24, 2010, 5:42:37 PM2/24/10

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Yes. It is setup in the notifications database to be run exactly as you
have noted. There is no easy way to make the change. Check out WCEAPPSFE.

Michel Verhagen has offered a solution for deleting things like this in his
blog (http://guruce.com/blogpost/filteringdatfiles) It is written for dat
files, but you could easily modify it for use on DB files as well.

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Paul G. Tobey [ eMVP ]

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Feb 25, 2010, 2:33:01 PM2/25/10

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If you don't want Outlook functionality in your device, don't build it in.

Paul T.

Bhentai

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Feb 25, 2010, 5:25:01 PM2/25/10

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Thanks,

With that info, I was able to create the PostFmergeObj.bat that clears the
relevant wakeup event from calnot.exe that was really not necessary. All the
info was in intdb.ini. I kept everything except the things related to
calnot.exe.

Thanks again!!

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Bhentai

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Feb 25, 2010, 5:29:02 PM2/25/10

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It's not that I don't want the Outlook functions, its just that this
particular settings is causing trouble. For one of our client, a device that
wakes up at midnight for no "good" reason is not OK.

Paul G. Tobey [ eMVP ]

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Feb 25, 2010, 6:42:04 PM2/25/10

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I'm not 100% sure of this but I think what it's doing is setting the next
week's worth of Outlook calendar reminders. That is, if you have meetings in
the next week which have reminders associated with them, it's adding those
items to the list of notifications in the notifications database. I don't
believe, for example, that when you add a new meeting for three weeks from
now, it will set up that notification in the database. That would,
particularly for recurring events, grow the notifications database too large
for good operations. Instead, these midnight runs will add just the
soon-to-fire notifications, asssuring that you won't miss your meetings,
which would really tick you off, but that you also have a relatively small
database of notifications. I'd say that you should not kill that process,
because I think you'll regret it, if you do.

Paul T.