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Changing Start Menue in WM SE

Hi everybody. Those of you who have windows mobile SE might miss the good old start menue from first edition featuring more links than the new one. The old version had those tiny little symboles at the very top. Far more handy than these big "last used" symbols now from my poit of view.
Perhaps one reason of this restructure is the landscape mode. Here the "last used" symboles become the litte symboles ontop like in first edition.
now wouldn't it be nice if you could also define the lower sectioin of the menue with permanent links in stead of these changing ones?
So far I found out that the registry folder containing these shortcuts is to be found at: HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Shell\TaskSwitch
(at least at my Himalaya).
Within here you got
(Default) (value not set)
"1"="\\Windows\\Startmenü\\Programme\\SlovoEd.lnk"
"0"="\\Windows\\Startmenü\\Programme\\Resco Registry.lnk"
"10"="\\Windows\\Startmenü\\Programme\\Spiele\\Jawbreake r.lnk"
"11"="\\Windows\\Startmenü\\Programme\\Astor.lnk"
"9"="\\Windows\\Startmenü\\Programme\\Internet Explorer.lnk"
"8"="\\Windows\\Startmenü\\Programme\\Messaging.lnk"
"7"="\\Windows\\Startmenü\\Programme\\Alex.lnk"
"6"="\\Windows\\Startmenü\\Programme\\Eval.lnk"
"5"="\\Windows\\Startmenü\\Programme\\Notizen.lnk"
"4"="\\Windows\\Startmenü\\Programme\\movianVPN.lnk"
"3"="\\Windows\\Startmenü\\Programme\\Sprite Backup.lnk"
"2"="\\Windows\\Startmenü\\Programme\\Suchen.lnk"
for example while values form 0 to 5 are the 6 items that are displyed.
Now changing a value to a link (.lnk) that is located in the windows/start menue/program folder and a softrest brings this new item up..
The only thing that one would have to do to permanently set one's links is to stop the device from changing that folder.
unfortunatelly I have no idea how to do that... maye sombody of you can help?
Thanks alot
Alex

I've tried everything. Delete single values within taskswitch. delete taskswitch...
I added Dwords to Shell and taskswitch as follows:
NoRecentTaskHistory = 1
NoRecentTaskSwitch = 1
NoRecentTaskSwitchHistory = 1
NoTaskHistory = 1
NoTaskSwitch = 1
NoTaskSwitchHistory = 1
non of them works.
Actually I'm not into inventing new regestry vlues.
Perhaps someone of you knows...
Thanks a lot. I think a lot of people would appreciate this.
Greets Alex

Date and Time and MP3

Hi,
Can someone please confirm the regedits that I need to make on a wizard to enable date and time at the top of the today screen and also point the mp3 ringtones to a storage card. Are they the same as for 2003SE?

anyone ? can it be done?

They should be the same...
quick how-to :
1. Download PHM Regedit
2. Install to your device
3. Run PHM Regedit
4. Navigate to HKEY_LOCAL_MAHINE\Software\Microsoft\Shell
5a1. You see the TBOpt value
5a2. Select the TBOpt value - this will open the editing screen
5b1. You do NOT see the TBOpt value
5b2. Click Edit
5b3. Choose "New DWORD Value"
6. Switch to Hexadecimal mode in the editing screen that now appears
7. Set the value to :
10 = Neither time nor Date
11 = Time only
12 = Date only
13 = Date & Time
8. Click OK
9. Click tools
10. Choose Exit
Play some game here or something, as the device needs to actually write the registry out. 1 minute should be plenty of time.
11. Soft-reset your device
Done. You should now see the date/time setting you wanted.
However, you may now notice something else. E.g. the date today is 06/01/13 - but all you can see is "06/01/1". This is because the date string is getting cut off by the program OK/Close button. You can fix this by padding the Short Date Format.
1. Run PHM Regedit
2. Navigate to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\nls\overrides
3. Select the value "SSDte"
4a. Add a bunch of spaces to the end (depending on your date format, 1 to 3 may be needed) - this shifts the date/time display to the left.
4b. You can also change the format of the date presentation itself. I use "ddd d " which today results in "Fri 13 " (eek!)
For an overview of the date strings you can use, see :
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/d...ide/html/cpconcustomdatetimeformatstrings.asp
( note that you can't use the time strings, as it's a date field )
5. Click OK
6. Click tools
7. Choose Exit
Play some other game, watch a commercial on TV, blabla
8. Soft-reset your device
Done. Do note, however, that this affects -all- programs that make use of the short date formatting calls. So if some application looks all quirky due to the use of extra spaces and/or different format; well, tough. Can't have both
With thanks to:
http://wiki.xda-developers.com/index.php?pagename=Universal_Registry

VS.Net and TimeZones...

Hi all,
I'm trying to fix up a long standing timezone issue with KingFetty's CallCalendar - but there seems to be some WEIRD **** happening with DST time...
At the moment, the code works perfectly - however the call gets logged to the calendar with a start time and end time of 1 hour behind the current device time.
This gets weirder when you add a line like this to the start of the program:
msgbox(Now)
The time shown on the messagebox is 1 hour behind what is shown on the clock :|
My idea was to add the following block of code to the FixTime function to try and fix this:
Dim localZone As TimeZone = TimeZone.CurrentTimeZone
If localZone.IsDaylightSavingTime(StartTime) Then
StartTime = StartTime.AddHours("1")
StopTime = StopTime.AddHours("1")
End If
This is all well and good, however IsDaylightSavingTime returns false! Oh joy.
Has anyone run across the VS strangeness with timezones and daylight savings before?
I have attached the current source to this post for budding VB.Net hackers...

Ok - so I managed to find the problem... It looks like after installing the March 2008 Daylight Savings updates, for my particular timezone you need to change to a different timezone, then switch back to the correct timezone for the registry changes to be applied.
Weird behaviour for this kind of thing as multiple hard resets, soft resets, and power off/on reboots didn't have this effect.
This leads me to believe it's a WM issue. Anyone got any ideas on how to fix this properly?

You will have better luck if you post in the appropriate section of the forum. There is a ''Question and Answers'' section to XDA. This section of the forum hereis for posting completed applications, themes, etc.

erm this is a Question Regarding the Development, so i guess it should stay here

I'm not really sure what's your problem but I exprerienced some issues when I had to deal with timezones. This is what helped me:
Code:
System.Globalization.CultureInfo.CurrentCulture.ClearCachedData();

I've sent the following to MS - as it's quite strange behaviour!
I have run some test with the following simple application:
------------------ Start Sample Code ------------------
Imports System.TimeZone
Public Class Form1
Private Sub Form1_Load(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles MyBase.Load
Dim localZone As TimeZone = TimeZone.CurrentTimeZone
MsgBox("Time = " & Now & vbCrLf & "StandardName = " & localZone.StandardName & vbCrLf & "DaylightName" & localZone.DaylightName & vbCrLf & "IsDaylight? = " & localZone.IsDaylightSavingTime(Now))
Me.Close()
End Sub
End Class
------------------ End Sample Code ------------------
On freshly booting the Windows Mobile device, I get the following output:
Time = 17/12/08 6:05:20 PM
StandardName =
DaylightName =
IsDaylight? = False
The clock on the device shows 7:05pm when this test was run.
I change the timezone to +10 Brisbane, Click OK, then click Yes to save the changes to the clock.
I then change the timezone back to +10 Sydney, click ok, then click yes to save changes to the clock.
Upon running the sample code above again, I get the following output:
Time = 17/12/08 7:07:38 PM
StandardName = Sydney Standard Time
DaylightName = Sydney Daylight Time
IsDaylight? = True
The clock on the device showed 7:07 PM at the time of this second test.
To me it seems that on boot, the timezone just isn't set - which is just weird!
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Single line date and time on Today screen

for those interested in having their Today screen display the date and time on a single line, read below.
To put the date on a single line on the today screen
HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Today
add dword: AutoSingleLineDatePlugin
set value to: 00000001
To replace the long date format with a short date format
HKLM\nls\Overrides
add/edit string SLDte
set value to: dddd dd/MM/yy
no one thread that i could find on xda had this information... cheers

Can taskbar display seconds in time??

I need show time in HH:mm:ss format in taskbar,but WM6.5 just show HH:mm, I need display seconds,how can I do it? thanks everyone...

IMHO yes. To change the time layout or format in taskbar you
1. Go to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\nls\overrides
2. Edit the following values
STime STRING ":" - This setting allows you to modify the separator between hours and minutes, minutes and seconds
STFmt STRING "h:mm:ss tt" - Changes the time layout or format (see below list)
S1159 STRING "am" - Allows you to modify the AM suffix
S2359 STRING "pm" - Allows you to modify the PM suffix
Info:
Time Format String
h - Hours 12 Hour Clock with No Leading Zero
hh - Hours 12 Hour Clock with Leading Zero
H - Hours 24 Hour Clock with No Leading Zero
HH - Hours 24 Hour Clock with Leading Zero
m - Minutes with No Leading Zero
mm - Minutes with Leading Zero
s - Seconds with No Leading Zero
Ss - Seconds with Leading Zero
t - am/PM indicator - First Letter Only
tt - am/PM indicator - First Two Letters
ttt - am/PM indicator - First Three Letters

Thanks for help,but my default setting already is STFmt=HH:mm:Ss ,but in Wm6.5's taskbar only show hour and minute,no seconds,I don;t know why...

May be somebody know how do time with seconds on lock screen? Or how use HH:mm:ss ff in HKLM\nls\overrides or in other place...