Samsung ICE Tablet PC

SpudNuts11 · #1 (**permalink**) 03-24-2008, 09:47 PM

Not sure if this is the right forum or not but here it goes.

I have a question, I recently came across a refrigerator made by Samsung that happens to have a detachable tablet pc running Windows CE and it also does wireless TV. I got the fridge for about 75% off because the guys at Lowes didn't know how to get the TV connected and therefore thought it was broke.

I'm an engineer and up for the challenge so I bought it, followed the directions and it works just fine **SCORE**

Ok, is there a way to reprogram the tablet? Or get it to boot to the desktop instead of the programs that startup at boot? It does have a USB port and I do get access to all the folders on the tablet. I'm not sure what to do to get it to boot differently or at least stop it from starting the stupid food thing that comes up when it first boots.

All I want to do is have it boot to a desktop. Since the wireless tv runs on 802.11b, I figured that the thing definately has a wireless nic and therfore has internet. I think it runs Windows CE.net and thought you guys would be the experts to either help me interrupt the boot process or help me build a new ROM so I can use it as a tablet PC and TV or at least get more use out of it.

The OS is running on a 128meg rom and it has a touch screen. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks

SpudNuts11 · #2 (**permalink**) 11-03-2008, 01:11 PM

Anyone have any ideas on this? Any help at all?

psiphi · #3 (**permalink**) 11-04-2008, 02:40 PM

Well, to start make a backup copy of anything you can...

Now that you have a way to undo stuff, go to the /Windows/Startup directory, and remove all the shortcuts and programs... (This is also a good place to add a program you want to kick off like a replacement desktop or a file manager like Total Commander if you can't rid of the other stuff.) Soft boot the device...

If still not booting to the desktop, see if you can get activesync to work with it, so you can use activesync to uninstall unwanted programs...

If you can get to the settings area, try to disable any plugins on the today screen... (What version of Windows CE? WM2003? WM5?) If you can't, you can try deleting the non-microsoft EXEs and such from the Windows dir, but this can be dangerous...

Can you access the registry? There are setting you should check there too...

Sounds like a fun toy...