This application will display all the notification events in the system's database and will give you a total count of events. You will have an option to clear out all the "SSTimeChange", "conmgr.exe", and "IA_Caller_ID.exe" events from your database and get a new count, or create a log file of all the events. Duplicate events are highlighted on the screen in a red color, and can be removed by activating the "Remove all duplicate events" in the settings panel.

The Pocket PC 2003 OS appears to have a bug that can slow down the performance of a Pocket PC device, and can potentially cause ActiveSync delays. It has been identified that after every soft-reset of your device, a few extra "Notification Events" are added to the Notification Event Database on your system (This database holds system notifications such as alarms, timed events, etc.). After several soft-resets, a device can have several hundreds of extra notification events that can reduce the performance of a device.

The offending notifications are labeled "SSTimeChange" and "conmgr.exe". Since we do a lot of soft-resetting when we develop our software, we discovered one of our 2003 devices to have over 600 notification events (when it typically has less than 50!).

CheckNotifications will remove these notification events, as well as the "IA_Caller_ID.exe" events from the Notification Event Database that seem to be duplicated on the Pocket PC phone-based devices. Only those events associated with the "RunAppAfterRestore" event status will be removed.

CheckNotifications also displays duplicate events on the main screen in a red color. You can remove these duplicate events by activating this feature in the "Settings" screen for the program, and then by tapping the "Clear" button. You can also delete individual events from the system database by doing a tap-n-hold on a displayed event and selecting "Delete" from the popup menu. Please be careful when deleting individual events manually, since deleting a needed event may cause problems with ActiveSync.

I repeat: Do not manually delete notification events unless you are certain you know what you're deleting. If you delete events indiscriminately, you could lose the ability to use ActiveSync and you will need to do a hard reset to correct the problem!