As above , have deleted some apps to free up some stace but they have left white empty window folders in the program list? any idea how to remove them??
antilagman said:
As above , have deleted some apps to free up some stace but they have left white empty window folders in the program list? any idea how to remove them??
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Did you uninstall them or just delete them?
They'll be in \Windows\Start Menu\Programs
I understalled them,
Setting/application/remove programs/ then select the program and click remove?
The main problem is 2 games i have deleted have left 2 games folders with the icons still inside but which are not active ?
antilagman said:
I understalled them,
Setting/application/remove programs/ then select the program and click remove?
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Thats fine, thats the way to do it, some people just delete the folders.
Are the 'white folders' in the Start Menu?
i have 2 folders in the program list, (games1 and games 2)?
and 2 white blank icons in the games folder ?
antilagman said:
i have 2 folders in the program list, (games1 and games 2)?
and 2 white blank icons in the games folder ?
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Ok, if you open File Explorer, you should be able to browse to:
\Windows\Start Menu\Programs
The ones you want to get rid of should be in there. Be careful not to delete the proper games folder though
Perfect, thank you for the help, I have been searching all night,
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How can i create a shortcut to "Program Folder " & for "Setting Folder" in Start menu .. as example make the right soft key open setting folder and the left one open programs
Bro' use this - WM 5 NewMenu
Programs > Create shortcut to \Windows\Start Menu\Programs
Dr.Mazika said:
How can i create a shortcut to "Program Folder " & for "Setting Folder" in Start menu .. as example make the right soft key open setting folder and the left one open programs
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You should have two programs in your \Windows folder, one called "htcPrograms.exe" and the other is "htcSettings.exe" These programs open the folder that is implied in their name, so if you create a shortcut to these programs it should work. Thay are down a bit.
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tmz said:
You should have two programs in your \Windows folder, one called "htcPrograms.exe" and the other is "htcSettings.exe" These programs open the folder that is implied in their name, so if you create a shortcut to these programs it should work. Thay are down a bit.
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No htcSettings.exe Or htcPrograms.exe
Any Help
Without that htcsettings file I don't think anything will work. And I also don't have that file. I just know that I've tried making a shortcut to the "settings folder" before and no one seemed to know how. The problem is its not actually a "folder". It's something else. You can make shortcuts to the individual .cpls but not the whole "folder"... The programs folder is actually a folder so you can just make a shortcut to that but the settings is a whole other ball game. If you figure it that that'll be great!
Do you have the file \Windows\folderview.exe? If so, this works on my Touch XL to shortcut to the programs listing - icon list, just as if you press programs in the start menu.
Hey guys, these two shortcuts exist. Go to windows, it's not in a folder, but down below the folders. Use your sidebar and scroll it half way down. Start looking for those two. Their about 3 to 4 files apart from each other. Roughly in alphabetical order. After you find them hold down on them with your stylus and copy them to whereever your like to create a shortcut for them. i copy them both to my documents and had no problem creating shortcuts to both of them. Hop that helps. I tried posting a picture. I just can't get it to copy in this bo
This is it.
not exist in my windows folder
Dr.Mazika said:
not exist in my windows folder
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what WM are you running?
am i missing something here, or can't tmz just post those two files from his/her windows folder? it'd be much faster than going through asking people what ROM they're running, etc.
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This? T M Z
I'm some what new at this. I don't know what you mean by "post the files." I thought the picture showing the files in windows is what you were looking for.
try these apps. copy them to any folder and create a shortcut. works perfectly
here are the two programs
just install them where you want
woops, someone already posted files!
asefsef said:
woops, someone already posted files!
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This is the one.
The setting icons have a quite large text, but it is ok.
Folderwiev for programs looks perfect on duttys rom 3.x
Number of icons per row
Thanks - great applications.
In my regular settings, I have changed registry settings so that I get 4 icons per row (Horizontal icon spacing, vertical icon spacing). How do I do that for these programs? Is there a parameter I can pass to them? Or can your program read those values from the registry and adapt the display accordingly?
Hi, Guys, if you don't want to add any additional apps to your phone, here's the pure-shortcuts way:
Please check these two threads for more info:
In this thread ([Guide] How to create .LNK files and use parameters) you'll know how to make a full set of shorcuts for all control-panel settings items, and a ready-made set already there.
In this thread (Control Panel links and icons wm2003se and higher) you can also know how to associate those shortcuts with system icons.
Hence, for 'settings', just creat a new folder in \windows\start menu\programs\ named 'settings' and put inside all the control panel shortcuts.
Edit: The advantage of this wayis: You can map any single item of settings into the softkeys or a hardware button. So shortcuts become shortcut to your target within one touch.
For 'programs', just create a shortcut for the folder \windows\start menu\programs\ inside the folder itself.
Thank you egoist6 for Files
You saved me from HardReset
My problem was crushed manila and no settings shortcut in ROM, there is no htcsettings.exe , no settings.exe , no cplmain.cpl
thank you
This is my first post so please be nice!!!
I have an app that I copied accross to my HD which I can run from file explorer, but as it doesn't apear in the 'All Programs' list I can't add a shortcut to it on the Programs screen.
How do I add an app to the Programs screen that hasn't been installed in the conventional way?
Love you all btw.
Toni.
Click and hold on the app and then select copy. Then move to windows\programs and paste it as a short cut.
Then the app should appear in the list of available programs.
That didn't work...
Any other ides?
I had this prob with an app. find the exe in explorer on the phone, edit-copy it. then go to device-windows-start menu-programmes, then paste shortcut. That should make it show up on programmes and allow you to add it to the programmes tab too.
YAY!
You da man, as they say.
Thankyou.
No problem mate, glad to be able to help! It is after all what forums are really about
Hi, the HD2 is my first Windows Mobile Device, I've never used that OS before. So i got a simple question, is it possible to remove icon in the start menu? There's some like Facebook, Bing, Copilot, Help, Google Maps etc that I never use, so having them wasting space in the start menu is not in my interest.
Thanks
Open in file explorer windows\start menu\programs and delete shortcuts
Weiri cant find that directory :S
Stoferr said:
Weiri cant find that directory :S
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In file explorer, push -> Menu -> and then show all files.
Deleted Icons Reappear
I have an issue with this on my HD2. I wanted the HTC icons (twitter, music, people, etc.) to be in a seperate HTC folder in the start menu. I cut the icons from the Programs folder and pasted them in the HTC folder that I had previously made.
Here comes the issue: after a while, the icons reappear in the start menu, while they are also in my HTC folder. The icons that reappear are blank.
Any thoughts?
Thanks a million,
Bruce
bruce007 said:
I have an issue with this on my HD2. I wanted the HTC icons (twitter, music, people, etc.) to be in a seperate HTC folder in the start menu. I cut the icons from the Programs folder and pasted them in the HTC folder that I had previously made.
Here comes the issue: after a while, the icons reappear in the start menu, while they are also in my HTC folder. The icons that reappear are blank.
Any thoughts?
Thanks a million,
Bruce
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Here is a trick that permanently delete HTC Icons from Start Menu
It's under tip mumber 42
Just what I needed Braakie. Thanks so much! Nice list there btw, thanks for that too!
Does anyone know or have some type of substitution for making shortcuts of folders on the HTC home screen.
For example instead of have a shortcut for a game I want the games folder that is in the start menu to be the HTC Home screen shortcut... Any know if this is possible? Thanks
why not just make a new folder in the startmenu\Programms folder and throw all game shortcuts in there?^^
mmafighter077 said:
Does anyone know or have some type of substitution for making shortcuts of folders on the HTC home screen.
For example instead of have a shortcut for a game I want the games folder that is in the start menu to be the HTC Home screen shortcut... Any know if this is possible? Thanks
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I'm assuming you mean having a shortcut to the games folder as a home screen quicklink?
i tried this with Total Commander (TC) for example. Browse to:
\Windows\Start Menu\Programs
Select 'Games' Folder
Then in TC: File/>>>>>/Create Shortcut
I created a shortcut for games in the tools folder:
\Windows\Start Menu\Programs\Tools
I can then see it to add it via pressing on a empty quicklink, but I get an error when I try to use the shortcut.
error "Either not signed with a trusted certificate, or one of it's components cannot be found..."
Anyone have any ideas why it doesn't work?
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I'm assuming you mean having a shortcut to the games folder as a home screen quicklink?
i tried this with Total Commander (TC) for example. Browse to:
\Windows\Start Menu\Programs
Select 'Games' Folder
Then in TC: File/>>>>>/Create Shortcut
I created a shortcut for games in the tools folder:
\Windows\Start Menu\Programs\Tools
I can then see it to add it via pressing on a empty quicklink, but I get an error when I try to use the shortcut.
error "Either not signed with a trusted certificate, or one of it's components cannot be found..."
Anyone have any ideas why it doesn't work?
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This sounds it can go some where. hopefully some one can get this to work. i will test it a few different ways...see if i can get it to work.
I created a short cut to the games folder and just left it in the programs folder, works from a quick link no problems.
I used resco, press and held games folder, chose copy, press and held again and chose paste as shortcut. then went to home, clicked empty quick link, chose the games shortcut. quick link works fine.
samsamuel said:
I created a short cut to the games folder and just left it in the programs folder, works from a quick link no problems.
I used resco, press and held games folder, chose copy, press and held again and chose paste as shortcut. then went to home, clicked empty quick link, chose the games shortcut. quick link works fine.
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Yep Resco works. Also try to rename it from "Shortcut with xy" to just "xy"
elburna said:
rename it from "Shortcut with xy" to just "xy"
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that part must be rom specific because mine just called it games.lnk
samsamuel said:
that part must be rom specific because mine just called it games.lnk
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me too. i get the same think.
Guess I'll have t get resco explorer then. Wonder why TC fails?
Can you only create shorcuts in folders? Becuase I tried moving the actual (original icon) shortcut into the Games/Multimedia/Tools folder, and now when I try to open the shortcut it gives me:
"The file "file name" cannot be opened. Either it is not signed with a trusted certificate, or one of it's components cannot be found. If the problem persists, try reinstalling or restoring this file."
EDIT: Nvm, this was because I had it installed on my SD card, and the usb was plugded in while I was trying to run the program.
How do I remove shortcuts from start menu on my HTC HD 2?
go to file explorer and brows to "windows/startmenu" and delete what you don't want.
help! I deleted the duplicate shortcuts in Start menu\Programs but they still show up in the start menu!?!?
fuxbox said:
help! I deleted the duplicate shortcuts in Start menu\Programs but they still show up in the start menu!?!?
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Have you performed a soft reset after you made your changes..?
telegraph0000 said:
Have you performed a soft reset after you made your changes..?
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yes. and to be more precise they are numerous game shortcuts.
bumpin help!
try this program...might help
on the left are your program links, on the right, the start menu folders.
check one link on the left, check one folder on the right, then select 'move'.
or....just select the link and delete...
or....create a new start menu folder or shortcut link.
I really like this program.
telegraph0000 said:
try this program...might help
on the left are your program links, on the right, the start menu folders.
check one link on the left, check one folder on the right, then select 'move'.
or....just select the link and delete...
or....create a new start menu folder or shortcut link.
I really like this program.
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cool i will try it out, sounds promising. thanks
no luck. the unruly icons did not show up yet they remain on my start screen. I'm about to give up on this phone and just deal with it
fuxbox said:
no luck. the unruly icons did not show up yet they remain on my start screen. I'm about to give up on this phone and just deal with it
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Okay...let's try this file explorer extension...
Click and hold, select properties, read only, hidden then after applying, soft reset.
wait....they're on your start screen but not in the windows folder?
telegraph0000 said:
wait....they're on your start screen but not in the windows folder?
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correct. quite odd isnt it? they are working shortcuts too!