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Managing Your Applications
Installing and removing applications
This section explains how to install and remove applications on your handheld and how to remove
Palm™ Desktop software from your computer.
Installing add-on applications
Your handheld comes with the Contacts, Date Book Plus, To Do List, Memo Pad, Expense,
Calculator, CityTime, and Palm Mail applications installed and ready to use. The Handspring CD-
ROM also includes a wireless application suite which you can install from the CD-ROM if you want
to configure your handheld for wireless communication.
You can also install additional applications on your handheld, such as business applications,
games, and other software. The Install Tool makes it easy to install software on your handheld
during a HotSync
®
operation. There are a variety of third-party applications available for devices
that use Palm OS software. To learn more about these applications, go to the web site:
www.handspring.com.
When you download an add-on application from the Internet, it is probably in a compressed format
such as a .zip or .sit file. If the file is compressed, you need to use a decompression utility on your
computer, to decompress the .prc and .pdb files inside the compressed file. A trial version of the
PKZIP decompression utility is located on your computer in the Programs\Handspring\Utility
folder. If you need a different decompression utility, search the Internet using phrases like 'zip
decompression' or 'how to unzip'. This will lead you to various third-party utilities that you can use
to decompress any kind of compressed or downloaded file--not just add-ons for your handheld.
After you install the utility, you are ready to decompress the add-on application files that you
downloaded.
Note:
Any applications that you install on your handheld resides in RAM memory; you can delete
them at any time.
To install add-on software on your handheld:
1. Copy or download the application you want to install into the add-on folder in your Handspring
(or Palm) directory on your computer.
Note:
If the software you download is compressed, you need to decompress it into this
folder. If you prefer to place the application into another folder, you need to navigate
to that folder before you complete step 5.
2. Double-click the Palm Desktop icon on your desktop.
Summary of Contents for Treo 90
Page 1: ...Treo 90 Handheld User Guide Windows Edition ...
Page 10: ...Page 10 Contents ...
Page 26: ...Page 26 Introduction to Your Treo 90 Handheld ...
Page 36: ...Page 36 Entering Data in Your Handheld ...
Page 52: ...Page 52 Managing Your Applications ...
Page 113: ...Chapter 6 Page 113 Options menu About To Do List Shows version information for To Do List ...
Page 136: ...Page 136 Application Specific Tasks ...
Page 156: ...Page 156 Setting Preferences for Your Handheld ...
Page 192: ...Page 192 Advanced HotSync Operations ...
Page 212: ...Page 212 Using the Wireless Application Suite ...
Page 234: ...Page 234 Non ASCII Characters for Login Scripts ...