Right from the old 2003 version of Windows Mobile OS, we were able to set our Owner Information such as Name, Contact number, email address and so on but the newer Windows Mobile 6.5 is missing such important setting. Here’s how you can enable it.

It was initially introduced to display the information on lock and today screens with the idea that if you lose your Pocket PC, the finder will be provided with the vital information right after turning on the PocketPc, so he could return it back to you if he wishes. But no one has ever used this feature and Today screens are almost entirely replaced with Mobile shell or custom plug-ins like HTC Touch FLO.

But Microsoft has forgotten the other most importantly function of this Owner information. Many of the commercial softwares available in the market are activated based on the owner name you setup and so in the newer Windows Mobile 6.5, those softwares could not be activated without this information.

Fortunately Microsoft didn’t actually remove the Owner information entirely but have just hidden it. You can enable it by a simple registry change. Under HKLM/ControlPanel/Owner, change the decimal value of Hide from 0 to 1. You can use the free PHM Registry editor to make the registry changes. And make sure you take backups before performing any registry changes on your PocketPc.

grgsiocl (117.241.177.xxx) 2009-12-19 04:21:22 I am using HTC touch2 with WM 6.5 on it. But i found the owner information is very much available on the WM 6.5 Reply | Quote 0   0

Carty (117.193.8.xxx) 2009-12-20 06:16:08 No, you might be using a custom ROM where developers enable it. If you look at some of the official ROMs and especially in the new Touch HD2, out of the box it was very hard to find even after enabling the Registry key as HTC Touch FLO hides most of the Windows Mobile' backend. Reply | Quote 0   0

tingo (95.16.230.xxx) 2010-01-12 10:44:46 I don´t even have the Hide value, is there as solution for this? Reply | Quote 0   0

Carty (117.193.1.xxx) 2010-01-16 08:49:29 Ok, try downloading this file, copy it to your PocketPC and open it from File Explorer. Tell me if that opens Owner information settings on your Windows Mobile 6.5 PocketPC. Reply | Quote 0   0

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