07-17-2007, 03:20 AM
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Rules For Exhange Push E-Mail
I was really glad to learn that my employer would break out of the "Blackberry-is-god" mindset and make pushed Exchange e-mail available to Windows Mobile users, and I was willing (if not slightly grudgingly) to accept the security rules/settings that are also automatically pushed to my device. I don't LIKE entering a lengthy alpha-numeric-upper-and-lower-case password every time my device goes unused for more than ten minutes, but I figure that's a small price to pay for the convenience of receiving the e-mail messages and appointment requests that arrive when I'm away from my PC.
For some goofy reason, though, our IT gurus thought it'd be a good idea to also enforce a ten-second timeout on the device's backlight. That means that I have to either wiggle around on my 8125's cursor keys the whole time I'm trying to do or read anything OR manually reset the timeout settings after each time the device automatically locks itself.
I obviously don't want to circumvent any of the "real" security settings that my employer feels are important, but can anybody think of a way to configure a longer backlight timeout that does NOT have to be manually changed every time I unlock my device? Are there any registry setting tweaks than can accomplish this or any tricks using third-party apps like Tweaks2K2? I guess there may be some kind of "stay-awake" applets that would keep the device from automatically locking after ten minutes of inactivity, but that does kinda defeat the purpose of security settings in the first place.
Thanks. Any ideas are welcome, because as much as I love push e-mail, I honestly can't see continuing to use it if I have to manually reconfigure my backlight settings a dozen times a day.
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