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Favorites list as my IE homepage?

I see here for example how to change your homepage in Internet Exporer, but I wonder if it's possible to put my list of favorites as my homepage, or better yet, make the "Favorites" page (the one you get by going "Internet Explorer - Menu - Favorites...") come up every time I press the IE hardware button. By default, IE comes up on the last page visited, including on the "Favorites" page if it was last, or on the homepage if you are starting IE fresh.

You could always write your own webpage with links to all your favorite sites and have this as your home page.

Yeah, I thought of simply exporting mobile favorites to an html file and making that the homepage, but then I will need to update the file manually when I edit favorites in any way. Also, that registry tweak expects a site link, not an html file on the device. I could talk to our net admin at work to host the file, but it seems like a hassle.
Any way to attach a hardware button to the IE's "Favorites" page directly?

seugene said:
Also, that registry tweak expects a site link
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You mean like "file://\My Documents\arse.html" :roll:

make your home page file://\windows\favorites

Thanks, guys. I got down to actually changing the registry, and found out that I do not have a "Start Page" value in HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Main. I added it, it did not help. Tried to delete default.htm and substitute my own file there, the OS does not allow me. Total Commander says the file is "in ROM".
Then I went to Internet Explorer and found Tools - Options - General. You can change the home page there.

but only to the webpage you are visiting at that time. When I am in the favorites page, I cannot set that as homepage since it does not have the menu option at the bottom...

Export your mobile favorites to an *.htm file, open that file with IE, then go to the menu.

Webpage as Today Backgound

This is just an idea.. but I think it would be nice to be able to setup the background of the Today Screen to a web page.
possible uses are:
1) webcams image pages that are updated every minute
2) traffic pages that are updated every minute etc.
3) other type web mini dashboards
etc.
possible options are
1) reload every xmin
2) reload olny when there is a open data connection
3) reload schedule
3) green icon in bottom left if last refreshed < 1min
etc

questsin said:
This is just an idea.. but I think it would be nice to be able to setup the background of the Today Screen to a web page.
possible uses are:
1) webcams image pages that are updated every minute
2) traffic pages that are updated every minute etc.
3) other type web mini dashboards
etc.
possible options are
1) reload every xmin
2) reload olny when there is a open data connection
3) reload schedule
3) green icon in bottom left if last refreshed < 1min
etc
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Tap/hold/save image(pop up) on the webpage, find saved image,tap on file, tap menu, tap set as today background. For the best background image should be set at "0", click OK(on top), this can also be done going to IE5 temporary internet files and following the same above procedures.

hotdog53 said:
Tap/hold/save image(pop up) on the webpage, find saved image,tap on file, tap menu, tap set as today background. For the best background image should be set at "0", click OK(on top), this can also be done going to IE5 temporary internet files and following the same above procedures.
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To have the whole webpage as tbg, capture the page using a screen capture utility, find the capture in file explorer, tap, menu, set as today background.

hotdog53 said:
To have the whole webpage as tbg, capture the page using a screen capture utility, find the capture in file explorer, tap, menu, set as today background.
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As an example, I'm using this webpage (1) as a today background. Pict. 2 is the page that comes up after "set as today background" from menu at bottom right.

I dont think he wants a screen shot of the webpage.
Im guessing he wants an active webpage as the background, much like the windows active desktop thing. Its a great idea and i would personally use this.

an active desktop kinda thingy is not present for windows mobile, but i guess there can be a "workaround'. e.g., a program can pull an image from a server every x seconds and change ur background with it.
Sometime down the line (if this has not already been done by then) I might include this in my timed wallpaper/theme cycler proggie..

if you follow the instructions from ms on using the compact framework to create a today item you will end up with a web page item. It would then be a more simple task to load content from the internet. I know it can work because i did it a while ago. I got as far as using html to set the window colour then went back to purely native today items.
Warning: it is a major pain in the back side to do that project. It involves a managed side and a native side that work together.

Id like an active webpage, but an active image from a web site refreshed on an interval would be nice

questsin said:
Id like an active webpage, but an active image from a web site refreshed on an interval would be nice
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Try here:
www.kickingdesigns.com

Quicklinks icons

I just upgraded to HD2 and found that some quicklinks icons are no longer what it originally looked like. Using a reg editor, I found the key - "HKLM/Software/HTC/Manila/0/IconPath" has the value \Windows
Starhub_GEE_logo_120.qtc". By the way, I installed the 16 links cab instead of the original 9 links.
However, the icon had changed to something that looked like the webpage that the link points to. Likewise for the Web Browser tab, in which the icon changed to a screenshot of the web page.
How can I get back the original icon? Having a webpage-shot as a link sucks and I'd rather it show a pictorial icon instead. Any easy way to get this back?
Like the browser links, is there anyway to show, say, a logo of the webpage instead of the page itself?

As far as I am aware web links are always displayed as a shot of the actual page you are linking to, with the exception of the 'Launch Browser' icon.

HTC HD2 Internet Favorite Icons

Does anyone know how to change the internet favorite icons on the HD2? I set my link and the icon shows a picture of an internet site that isn't the favorite.
Sometimes the picture doesn't even come up. It's still the empty black box with the name of the favorite in it.

After you set it as a favorite in the visual bookmarks, you have to shutdown the browser, then open it using the new tab. After that, it will show the first page of the site thats assigned to that tab.
If you want to get rid of the existing site on a tab, just long press on it then drag it to the edge till it turns red. Tab is now empty and ready for a new bookmark assignment.
Hope that helps

I tried that. It worked for most of the icons but there are a couple that keep putting up the Wikipedia page for a favorite that isn't Wikipedia. It's super annoying.

Windows 8 tips and Tweaks

Here is a list of 10 tweaks for Windows 8, shamelessly stolen from This Website, ill give a brief overview of them below but since I didn't find these myself I think it only fair that you visit the original site for the full story,
The funky animation one is pretty dam cool and the wee tool found on the link for it is the best way to edit those settings, I found the recommended settings adequate
1. Run Automatic Maintenance on a Schedule
By default, it runs them at 3AM, or if you're using your computer, the next time your computer becomes idle. You can change this time in the Action Center, as well as tell Windows whether you want to wake your computer up to perform these tasks.
2. Customize the Apps in the Search Bar
Bring up the Charms bar (with Win+C), click Settings, and go down to "Change PC Settings." From there, choose Search from the left sidebar, and turn off the apps you don't want taking up space in this menu.
3. Enable the Hidden "Aero Lite" Theme
You can still find it in the Themes folder on your computer.
4. Enable the Secret Start Screen Animation
When you first sign onto Windows 8, you get a very cool animation of all your tiles filling up the screen. After that, though, the Start screen has a much more toned down animation. If you want to enable the cooler animation for every launch of the Start screen, you can do so with a simple Registry tweak found Here.
5. Customize More Icons in Windows Explorer
Windows 8 now lets you customize your Library icons right from its settings. Just right-click on the Library, go to Properties, and you should see the option to change the library's icon right at the bottom
6. Create and Name App Groups on the Start Screen
You can do so by clicking the small button in the bottom-right corner of the screen and then right-clicking on the groups.
7. Take Faster Screenshots
If you press Win+Print Screen (or Win+Volume Down on a tablet), Windows will take a screenshot of your screen and automatically save it in your Pictures folder as a PNG file.
8. Tweak the Number of Rows on the Start Screen
You can tweak this number by editing the Registry, see Here for details
9. Hide Recent Files from Your Jump Lists
To access the preferences, just right-click on the Taskbar, go to Properties, and click the Jump Lists tab.
10. Get More Out of Your Multiple Monitors
If you have multiple monitors, you've probably noticed that Windows extends your taskbar across both screens. It does more than just that, though: you can press Win+PgUp to move your current app to your left monitor, and Win+PgDn to move it to the right monitor. In addition, if you go to the Desktop Background section of your Personalization settings, you can right-click on any individual wallpapers and choose which monitor you'd like it to show up on. Of course, if you like things the old way, you can also turn off the dual taskbar in Taskbar Properties
11. How to make your own Windows 8 "Metro" Shortcuts
Fairly straight forward and obvious way to make your Metro shortcuts, example Here shows you how
12. Various tips and tweaks
This site has gone to great lengths to get a list together for many tweaks, many of them focus on removing what makes Windows 8 good, ill have a look through them all in time and will repost the good ones, but for now there's all sorts to look at from changing the size of the header bar and borders (pretty handy!) to various ways of adding old style "start menus"

If anyone else has any other funky tips, (if stolen please provide links to source) please pop them on a post and ill update the first post, makes sense to keep this stuff together I guess!

Maybe this:
http://www.howtogeek.com/74331/how-to-create-your-own-windows-8-shortcuts-for-shutdown-perhaps/
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http://www.askvg.com/category/windows-8/