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.
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I can't seem to figure out how to change that button left of space bar so that it launches IE to my home page (Google).
Everytime I click it, it goes to O2's pda site.
Any tips?
Thx.
It'll be in the registry, can't be arsed to look now
But if you copy the \windows\default.htm file (the web page you see when you open PIE every time) to your PC, you can open it up in Notepad and put a link to Google - meaning you can just click on the link on the page instead of click on the home page button whenever you want to go to Google.
The right HTML for that is
Go to Google
Just put that in anywhere (so long as it's inbetween the <body> and </body> tags, easiest way is to just paste that code in right before the </body> tag, which will put the link at the bottom of the page anyway.
That's one quick-and-dirty way of hacking the web page to show a link to Google - once you've done that and saved the modified page on your PC, just replace the html file on your PC with the copy in the \windows directory on your XDA.
Job's a good un!
AboutURLs
Look for the dword 'home' with value 'file://\Windows\default.htm' in key AboutURLs
Cheers, M
Look at the wiki. It's exlpained in there.
To save you the trouble: Go to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\HARDWARE\OEM\KEYBD and change the key to whatever you want.
Thanks for following up with more definitive answers guys (I actually like hacking the O2 start page, call me weird) - I just didn't have the mental capacity to go sifting through the registry once more at 5am on a Thursday morning.
I have a very commonly used link to a web site that i have on my start menu. How can i change the default PIE icon for favourites/links?
Yes go to windows\favorites find the url you like - edit\copy and then go to windows\start menu\programs and edit\pastelink and there you will have the link you want
Thanks, but i have already done that fine. What i want it to change the icon image from the default webpage one to something else. Preferably a custom one.
Ok here it is - quote from vijay
'Using custom icons on shortcuts on the PDA is not difficult.
Basically, copy this into notepad, and call it mylink.lnk
Code:
41#\windows\iexplore.exe?\windows\DIM.exe,0
41
- Ignore this (it's the length of everything after #)
\windows\iexplore.exe
- this is the app you want to launch
?\windows\DIM.exe,0 (change this for the program you want your icon to have)
- this is the icon it should show instead of its default one
- it means, take the first (ie 0th) icon in \windows\dim.exe as the icon
It's not hard. This is just an example. Use your own programs etc of course.'
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.
I have Visual Studio 2008 and the Windows Mobile 6/6.5 development kits..
I'm not sure how to create an app that lets me have several different pages..
For instance, if I am on the start page (panel?), I can SCROLL up/down/left/right to see the information.. If I SWIPE/Gesture up, I am taken to another page underneath (that I can SCROLL around in).. From that page I can SWIPE/GESTURE left to go to a new page on the right, etc..
Each page will just have some HTML links (I think you use a link label for that, right?)..
Thanks
-Matthew
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.