. . . which we discourage due to the thread's age. See Rule 7 here:
https://www.hpcfactor.com/info/help/forums/rules/
We've been a little more tolerant in recent years due to the sunsetting of Windows CE support
(and even acknowledgment of its existence
) by Microsoft, but reviving a more-than-decade-old thread to bring up what you've already brought up here is still something we don't encourage.
A PM to the poster you responded to there would've been better as it would at least trigger an e-mail notification directly to that member if that member has not disabled that setting. But even that might be a longshot given that that member hasn't visited this site for nearly eight years.