Installing the New Version

  1. Hook up your iPAQ with your Sync cable to your computer and wait for the ActiveSync program to connect. Your iPAQ needs to be connected through this entire process… so be careful not to Disconnect.
  2. On your IPAQ go to “Start” and “Settings.”
  3. Tap the “Systems” tab at the bottom of the screen and scroll down to “Remove Programs”
  4. In the Remove Programs box, you should see “Thacker Satellite Forms Runtime” and “Media-X eWalk”. Tap and Remove each one. Then click “OK” and the X in the top right hand corner to get back to the “Today” screen.
  5. On your computer, go to and login with your iPAQ username and password.
  6. Click on the eWalk logo in the center of the page.
  7. Click “Handheld” and then “Handheld Software.”
  1. Click the downpointing arrow in the “Select Platform” field and choose “PocketPC”. Now click the top choice “eWalk for PocketPC – Version 1.3.2 (is the latest version as of 1-29-08… but the higher numbers indicate later versions as time goes on).

  1. Click Run > Run > Install in the next three boxes that pop up.
  2. You will then see the box below, pop up on your computer screen, telling you to look at your IPAQ and tap.
  1. On your iPAQ screen you will see “Choose a location to install eWalk” … tap “Device” and then tap “Install” at the bottom of the screen.
  2. You will see the same thing again … just tap “Device” and “Install” at the bottom of the iPAQ screen a second time.
  3. You will then get a confirmation screen that the install was successful, so go to the top right hand corner of your iPAQ screen and tap “OK.”
  4. Now move back to your computer and on the green navigation bar, click “eWalk” to move back to the main menu.
  5. Under “Handheld” click “Generate Files.”
  1. Click “Classroom Walk-Through” under the Templates section. Under Categories section on the right, just ignore that for now 
  2. In Section 2 called “SelectSchool,” click to put a check mark in front of your school. If you work with multiple schools, click them individually … or… click “Select All.”
  3. In Section 3 click the “Generate Files” button on the right.

  1. Go to your iPAQ and tap “Start” then “Programs” and then tap “eWalk.”
  2. On the iPAQ screen you will tap the “Upload/Download” button.
  3. Go to the bottom right hand corner of the iPAQ screen and tap the “Setup’ button.
  1. Use the iPAQ keys to fill in the exact information on your iPAQ that you see in this box on your computer screen. Don’t put in “vickib” and ******… use YOUR username and password for eWalk 
  1. When you get this keyed in, tap the “Record” button and then the blue “Return” button. You will then be on the main menu page for eWalk on your iPAQ.
  2. Tap the “Upload/Download” button and under the first section, “Download Template Files generated and” tap to put a check mark in front of “Download Subjects (Staff, Students, etc.) then tap the big “Download” button at the top of the screen.
  3. The Status bar at the bottom of your iPAQ will start transferring files and when it finishes, it will say “DONE.”
  4. Now tap the “Return” button at the bottom of the iPAQ screen.

You have now successfully installed the new version of eWalk software!

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TPSS Directions for installing eWalk software on iPAQs

Friday, January 4, 2008