Less than a week into my first Pocket PC and I am already trying to tweak it. Common sign of a hardcore tweaker. Heheh... I guess I will even tweak my shaver if I could. :)

Anyway, I went surfing for registry editors and tweaking software and the first thing I downloaded was PalmTweak ver. 3.4.3 by Tillanosoft. It's a small program for Pocket PC users to configure their device settings without using any registry editors. In other words, it's kind of like Tweak UI. That should enable most users to configure their device settings without resorting to dangerous (though not if you know what you are doing) registry hacks.

PalmTweak is a small program. The whole package which is about 120KB zipped, comes with both independent executable and control panel applet versions for all three Pocket PC processors - the MIPS, SH3 and StrongARM processors. That's six different versions altogether. The actual executable itself (the MIPS version at least) is only 47KB in size.

Installation is easy although the user will have to know a little about copying the appropriate file to the correct directory in the Pocket PC. Clear instructions are given though. In any case, users of this program will normally be tweakers - users who already know the basics of computing so that shouldn't be much of an issue.

Inside, there are some pretty nice features although there's nothing that would enable us to improve the performance of the Pocket PC. Except for one feature, that is - Font Caching. Granted, the Pocket PC was never meant to be a speed demon but I'm sure we could all do with a shorter delay when switching between programs or while loading up processor-intensive software like Microsoft Reader. :)

So, what does Font Caching do? Will it actually boost the Pocket PC's performance? Let's find out!