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How to disply Today items, that are not in the list?

In other word, how to modify/organize the Today Items?
f.ex. I have many programs installed as Today Items but at the -> Settings -> Today. Items, there are only 13 items any the rest is invisible and inactive
And Dashboard is one of them

Known bug, if you have more than 13 applets installed some of them will start to disappear, usually the InBox application first. No solution known.

u can fix it by using RegEdit,,,,,,,search for "Tasks" to get Today items registery ,just rename it like "Dashboard" => "Dashboardx" and save, after that it'll apper. u can rename it again to original name :lol: thats it

I disagree here, you can remove items from the registry which you do not need to get back under the 13 applet limit, but renaming the entries does not really fix the problem. The limit is hard coded into the OS.

How to reduce Recently Run programs in Start menu ??

I found a CAB file that actually deletes all the Recent Programs from the Start Menu - but is there any sort of Registry Hack that reduces the number from 5 to just 3 or 4 ??

Help !!

i think it just fills the recent menu entries until the menu reaches a maximum vertical size. Removing all of my other start menu items, I've just got a start menu full of Today + 11 recent progs. Silly, but I don't use Start button - I use Smallmenu. Much better!
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There is a way to do this. Very simple In this recent programs section you see only the shortcuts to applications stored in Programs menu. But if you divide your shortcuts into other subfolders in the main Start Menu folder (in Windows) then those shortcuts will not appear in recent programs after running those apps Reeeealy simple
I have such subfolders in Windows\Start Menu:
- Games (I move here all games shortcuts)
- Office (word, excel... )
- Internet (Messaging, IE...)
- GPS (TomTom etc)
- Multimedia (WMP, BetaPlayer...)
- Programs (which is obligatory)
I also have one more folder called "Other" inside the Programs folder, where I place shortcus to apps that I rarely use. There also I created "Junk" folder for stuff I never use, but don't want to delete the shortcuts, incase they might come in handy. But shortcuts to those applications inside Programs or one of the subfolder of Programs will appear in recent programs section if started.

Aitch said:
I found a CAB file that actually deletes all the Recent Programs from the Start Menu - but is there any sort of Registry Hack that reduces the number from 5 to just 3 or 4 ??
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Hi
Where did you find that CAB file ?

I think I actually found it on this forum but I have done a search and can't find it now !
I can email it to you if you want it - its only a small file

Aitch said:
I think I actually found it on this forum but I have done a search and can't find it now !
I can email it to you if you want it - its only a small file
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ramram said:
Aitch said:
I think I actually found it on this forum but I have done a search and can't find it now !
I can email it to you if you want it - its only a small file
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OK thanks for the file, but how it works ?
I have installed it i amde a soft reset but the recent list is there
I am using an XDA2i device

This file has been tested on WM2003 and WM2003SE and it's working fine!
Anyway get PHMREGEDIT
GOTO HKEY_CURRENT_USER
>Software
>Microsoft
>Shell
>TaskSwitch
Then clear the contents
Good Luck.

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grap a trial copy herehttp://www.sunnysoft.cz/download/Sunnysoft_BM_WM5_CAB.zip
Enjoy

thanks for the head up.

Hmmm just tested it and everything seems to have worked fine apart from:
1. Its duplicating the t-mobile favourites and camera shortcuts in my programs list. I now show two of each.
2. My background picture wasnt replaced.
3. My start menu options were not refreshed with my settings

This program also seems to lock up your menus settings. Once you have restored your data you cannot ammend your menu preferences.
A bit flaky this I would stay away for now!

Any news for sprite back up?

Anyone know of the reg hack to clear the duplicated items in the menu options?

Missing Back button in PIE

I recently just noticed that when I browsed using Pocket Internet Explorer (PIE), the "Back" button on the bottom left hand side is no longer shown. It only shows the "Favorites" button, thus I can NOT go back to the previous web page.
I didn't make any registry changes or anything like that and the only programs that have the capability to changes hardware button settings are SpB Plus and SoftKey and they don't have the option to change the PIE application button.
Anyone know how I can bring the "Back" button back?

It only shows "favorites" when there is nothing to go back to. ie the first page of the session. As soon as you navigate to the next page it changes to "back"

That is correct. But what I meant is that even after I navigate to a website, the button still shows as "Favorites".
I.e. From "Home" screen, go to cnn.com, then go to yahoo.com. The "Back" button is not shown and I can't go back to cnn.com
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It only shows "favorites" when there is nothing to go back to. ie the first page of the session. As soon as you navigate to the next page it changes to "back"
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lanwarrior said:
That is correct. But what I meant is that even after I navigate to a website, the button still shows as "Favorites".
I.e. From "Home" screen, go to cnn.com, then go to yahoo.com. The "Back" button is not shown and I can't go back to cnn.com
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Things to check:
Have you changed any setting that disables the PIE cache.
Is PIE able to cache pages eg is it to storage card and does it's folder still exist and is SD card reachable.
Perhaps try changing cache location?
Mike

Yes, I did change the PIE cache location to "Storage Card". That folder exist in File Explorer and I can see in "Storage Card" that there is a "Temporary Internet Explorer" folder.
I tried changing the size of the cache, move to "Extended ROM" and ROM storage, but to no avail.
I removed (but not uninstall) WisBar, thinking it may change it, but also to no effect. However, I don't think WisBar did anything to it, since it only skin the application.
I am thinking that some application may messed up PIE, but all the apps that I installed are the same ones I have installed in my old MDA and there was no issue on the MDA. If there is some registry change I can apply to fix it, do let me know.

Mmmm.....
Couple of things I'm curious about - SpB Plus and SoftKey. I don't have either of these. But It's worth setting back any setting you have entered since your problem developed. Just because it has no specific setting does not mean that a seemingly non related change has not caused problem (for example if you set smooth scrolling in PIE using say Tweaks2k2 you will find the tab behaviour when sending SMS messages has changed!). Do not just uninstall these apps as this will not reset the registry changes they may have made.
The reason I asked about cache was simply that with no cached pages to return to there would be no back option available,
Of course you will have a nice SPB backup or two available to restore with won't you!!!? I play around with mine so much (!) that I keep several backups at various stages of application installation and over time.
Also curious to know if your history is being recorded in PIE drop down list in URL box. At a pinch you could use this as a rough sort of back button.
I have not looked into all the registry keys for PIE. This forum Wiki or indeed the wiki for some of the other devices may already have the keys mapped out . I did find info on setting cache size.
In the end it may be simpler to hard reset if those backups are not available.
Mike

Thanks for the detailed info, Mike.
I did disable SpB Plus, but to no effect. At the end, I uninstalled WisBar, Spb Plus, and SoftKey but nothing change either.
Yes, I can do hard reset, but I am trying to avoid that because I have to re-install everything. I have a "base" backup using SpB backup, but it still requires me to install other program as the other daily backup sets may already have corrupted PIE registry.
I am hoping that I can do something about this via the registry, unless this is something that really require hard reset just like the issue I have with duplicate notifications. i.e. after soft reset, the alarm reminder and sound will start although no appointment or task is scheduled at that time.
Now I know why PDA is not popular for most people.. it's just too damn fragile! And I used Windows CE since the time of Cassiopeia...

How to clear recent applications in the start menu?

well.. the title pretty much says it all. is there a way to do that since i've been through all the menus and settings of the phone and also have been through the forums here and i could not find any option for that matter..
and another related question.. what do you guys recommend for a maintenance program that works well on the hd and has a nice set of utilities that could be useful for tweaking and optimizing the memory

Hi,
first question: start-setting-menu : uncheck what you dont like to see in the start menu.
if your meaning is how to delete the list on top of the start menu from left to right, i think that just a soft reset can delete the list.
maintenance program: i am using Oxios Closeapp and Oxios Hibernate.
Tweak: HD Tweak Montecristoff
ciao

i meant the other start menu list and actually it's not cleared by a soft reset - i have tried - but hey it doesnt bother me that much but i was curious about it.. thanks for the oxios applications they both look useful and i am transferring them to my hd as i write this

SKTools has a tool called "AutoClean!", where you can define to delete this list.