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Hi all,
i have a little Question and hope that this wasnt ask by someone else. (sorry for my bad english)
In the startmenu i can put up to 7 Programs at max. Does exist any Registry entry to stack up the Number of programs that i can put in the startmenu?

Start menu "Settings" Shortcut
Help, I lost the "settings" shortcut on the startmenu. Is there a way to get it back without having to hard reset the device?

SidEwigk said:
Hi all,
i have a little Question and hope that this wasnt ask by someone else. (sorry for my bad english)
In the startmenu i can put up to 7 Programs at max. Does exist any Registry entry to stack up the Number of programs that i can put in the startmenu?
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Maybe if you copy the shortcut files manualy to Windows\Start menu from Windows\Start menu\Programs\

thx but that not works. Also i have searched in the Registry a little bit but dont found any entry for this....can anyone help me?
Im Shure i can usw Wishbar3 but i dont want to install so many progs^^

You may want to take a look at this tool, one of the most valuable tools I've installed on my Polaris: 'QuickMenu' of Chinese origin. It replaces the startmenu on the windows logo, while the original windows startmenu is still available under 'Start'.
http://www.freewarepocketpc.net/ppc-download-quickmenu-v2-7.html
Functions:
- Cascading StartMenu (fully configurable)
- Cascading Settings menu (windows mobile settings)
- TaskManager (easy switch and close functions from the startmenu)
- TaskSwitcher (create alt-tab shortcut to QM-active-next which you can map to a hardbutton)
- Hibernate/Suspend/Reboot from startmenu
- Execute ...
- SIP panel selector
- Bluetooth toggle (connectable, discoverable, off)
- Batterystatus (in percentage)
- Memorystatus (internal or memorycard)
There's no installer, unzip the archive to a 'quickmenu' folder in your program files and run the exe once. If you don't like it, delete the folder. The only issue I had with it on my previous device was that the 'Settings' menu which links to WM's personal, system and connection settings didn't work correctly, possibly because it was mapped to the 'Settings' function, in stead of the dutch 'Instellingen'. The rest of the functions worked fine.
My Polaris has an english system and QM works perfectly. Great little tool.

"You may want to take a look at this tool, one of the most valuable tools I've installed on my Polaris:"
Thanks for this. A top tool.

Indeed a great tool, but can you disable the battery status on the upper right corner ? It is messing with the task manager and i cant close or select which program i want.
I tried disabling it from the settings of the program itself, and the battery status gets removed, but i still cant see the task manager icon.

Go into Settings/Task Manager/Button tag and re-check the "Enable Quick Menu on Today Screen"

Sky740 said:
Go into Settings/Task Manager/Button tag and re-check the "Enable Quick Menu on Today Screen"
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thank you mister

Resume from Windows Mobile Side?

In the power settings on the WM side, I can set to "Turn off device if not used for x minutes". When the device turns off, how do you turn it back on?
The only thing that I have been able to figure out, is to use the Shift Control on Vista side to Reset SnapVUE. Am I missing something?
I am running ThaiHugos snapvue+gps rom.

i believe it's auto...
i believe that when you press the button to go to the snapview side it gets swiched on automatically...

vulcan_gr said:
i believe that when you press the button to go to the snapview side it gets swiched on automatically...
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That is the first thing that I tried. And the screen remains black. I also tried to press the button to go to the snapview side, and then slide the power button (the same as bringing Vista out of sleep). No go.

Did you try pressing it twice? When the screen powers off, pressing the "Shift" button will shift the device to Vista but the screen will be blank if Vista is not running. Pressing it again shifts it back to SnapVue and the screen should come back again.
At least that is what happens with the stock rom!
Regards,
Dave

Go to settings -->connections-->USB to PC and check "enable advanced network functionality" for some reason this causes problems with resuming.

sniveri said:
Go to settings -->connections-->USB to PC and check "enable advanced network functionality" for some reason this causes problems with resuming.
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Thanks! Works again. But it is a bummer as I cannot use USBTool when this is unchecked.

If someone would make new version of usb-tool that unchecks that setting if it is registrysetting and maybe sets "turn of device if not used" to "never" when usbtool is in use. When querying usbtool to close it would undo those changes. This would not be hard to do after all?

sniveri said:
This would not be hard to do after all?
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In that case, do let us know when you've done it.

Pantaloonie said:
In that case, do let us know when you've done it.
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I have done launcer that first sets Enable advanced network functionality unchecked via registry and then launches USBTool. After USBTool Exits my launcher sets Enable advanced network functionality to checked state. I did`nt find this registrykey for device turning off yet. I had to do own launcher because I did`nt know where to get sources for USBTool.

I didn`t find correct settings for that "turn off device if not used"-setting so I just made Power-settings to appear Before and after USBTool is executed so I can check and uncheck it easily when I want to use USBTool. Now it works everytime.

sniveri said:
I didn`t find correct settings for that "turn off device if not used"-setting so I just made Power-settings to appear Before and after USBTool is executed so I can check and uncheck it easily when I want to use USBTool. Now it works everytime.
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How did you make it appear before and after?
Thanks
Ram

Removed the tool for a while..

I withdraw my sarcastic message telling you to make the tool yourself!

This has still one problem.. After rebooting WM side you have to manually go check and uncheck USB to PC setting and after that this works.. Sorry about it
EDIT: It is someway related how the USB-drivers are loaded? After those are once loaded you can switch between them or something, I don`t really know.. But something like this would be nice to get to the next generation of USBTool.

To get this "USB to PC" functionality work there is few registry settings that is changed. First of all there is driver setting that set is the RNDIS or Serial_Class used. Changing this checks and unchecks USB to PC checkbox. This can be found at:
Code:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Drivers\USB\FunctionDrivers
There is DefaultClientDriver what changes between RNDIS and Serial_Class.
Other settings are found at:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Drivers\Active\ + some number. For USB Driver-settings they change between 50-135(on my machine.. I don`t know about others). For example settings could be found at:
Code:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Drivers\Active\120
If you have unchecked "USB to PC" setting, you should have values:
Code:
BusName: USBFN_1_0, REG_SZ
BusParent: 5543120, REG_DWORD
Hnd: 5544944, REG_DWORD
Key: \Drivers\USB\FunctionDrivers\Serial_Class, REG_SZ
Name: COM8: , REG_SZ
For me those BusParent and Hnd settings are something that I don`t understand. Those values varies each time you check and uncheck USB to PC CheckBox. If this could be found out after that you could start rnaap.exe and rapiclnt.exe with correct parameters and after that USBTool should connect right away. So does anyone know how to know what should be used for BusParent and Hnd values. If those are wrong I get error when connecting to "`USB".
Easier solution would be to just show user this USB to PC -window for first place but it has some bug that it closes at the same second when opened with cplmain.cpl, 28 command.

Pantaloonie said:
I withdraw my sarcastic message telling you to make the tool yourself!
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Only sarcastic thing is that I shared cab which did not do the job actually. It worked for me 15 times but after that I was in trouble again.. but after all device turning off-settings worked fine.

Tried also with IOCTL_UFN_ENUMERATE_AVAILABLE_CLIENTS and IOCTL_UFN_GET_CURRENT_CLIENT. But available clients returns only current client so this was a dead-end too.. I have to give up.

Just a quick question, does the stock ROM have power off after X enabled?
I have disabed power off and have no probems now with any change in battery life (using thaihugo's myself) and just shutdown the screen with the screen switch button. Always comes up then and have no data disconnects.
Just wondered if this should be the norm as never looked at the default setting on the stock ROM.

How to re-enable HTC Sense?

Hi guys,
I have a little problem here...
I tried to disable HTC Sense using Setting tab in Sense. OK, so far so good Sense is disabled.
But what if I want to enable it again?... Sense is not present therefore Settings tab is not reacheable, and any options are not reachable even from start menu. There is no settings icon :/
Any ideas?

Sanojek said:
Hi guys,
I have a little problem here...
I tried to disable HTC Sense using Setting tab in Sense. OK, so far so good Sense is disabled.
But what if I want to enable it again?... Sense is not present therefore Settings tab is not reacheable, and any options are not reachable even from start menu. There is no settings icon :/
Any ideas?
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Start/settings it should be there, if not, there's something really weird going on on your device.

Well, if it would be so easy I would not ask
There is not settings option in startmenu... Its the mentioned problem :/

Try this:
Go into the Windows Mobile Settings, NOT the Manila Settings (you need to active the option to see them in the menu, e.g. with the help of BSBTweaks..), then go to "TODAY", next TAB (Elements in German) and see there is the Manila option. If its unselected, select it, if its selected, make it unselected, softreset and select it again! This should help you. Give it a try and let us know!
-SY

Check this out to enable the missing "SETTINGS"!
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=589305

Problem is that I tried to delete directory Windows/StartMenu/Settings and create it again. Since this I can see in start menu only one icon: "Today" which is shortcut for today screen only (same as one of hard keys on HD2).
Therefore I cant install BSBTweaks because I cant reach File Explorer or Total Commander or enything else

There are only three things which I can do with my phone right now:
1. soft reset
2. connect it to the PC via activesync
3. hard reset

Connect via activesync and let us know if you have anything in the folder \Windows\Start Menu\Programs

I have everything there as before this issue. But visible in phone is only Today icon.

Sanojek said:
I have everything there as before this issue. But visible in phone is only Today icon.
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Sounds like you've really screwed it mate. Guess that's a lesson - don't delete folders in the windows folder!
My advice would be a hard reset. Sorry - can't think of anything else.

Sanojek said:
Problem is that I tried to delete directory Windows/StartMenu/Settings and create it again.
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and who's a silly billy then! hehe. looking like a hard reset, unless someone cares to zip up their settings folder for you to try replace your folder, not sure that would work though.

The following will work even if using the basic file explorer that comes with the phone:
- start file explorer
- click on menu (right soft key) and click on "show all files"
- go to Windows
- scroll until you find htcSettingEntry.exe (will take a bit of scrolling!)
- click on it, it will open the "all settings" screen, from there you can access the "today" settings and re-enable sense

Jesus Im piece of noob... I have created Settings folder in Windows/StarMenu/Programs not in Windows/StarMenu. I moved it to correct folder and it is up and running again
Isadoras steps helped also. Using htcSettingEntry.exe file in Windows folder you can reach HTC Settings and set whatever you need.
Thx guys .)

Sanojek said:
Hi guys,
I have a little problem here...
I tried to disable HTC Sense using Setting tab in Sense. OK, so far so good Sense is disabled.
But what if I want to enable it again?... Sense is not present therefore Settings tab is not reacheable, and any options are not reachable even from start menu. There is no settings icon :/
Any ideas?
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Look in your Manila Core or Sense Core package in the .reg or .rgu for this registry entry and make sure its on 0. Or change in your current ROM using a regeditor. Soft reset and your settings icon will be back in the start menu.
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Security\Shell\StartInfo]
HideSettings = dword:0

Link All Settings on Start Menu

Hi
I've been looking to link the "All Settings" (Start->Settings->More->All Settings) to the Start Menu.
I looked in some cases but i didn't find anything.
Can you help me please?
Best, HugePan

HugePan said:
Hi
I've been looking to link the "All Settings" (Start->Settings->More->All Settings) to the Start Menu.
I looked in some cases but i didn't find anything.
Can you help me please?
Best, HugePan
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If you use BsB Tweaks and enable the option "Windows Settings - Show normal settings in start menu" then the settings icon in the start menu goes back to being the classic settings icon (takes you to "all settings").

Instal BSB Tweaks which has a toggle to turn on the 'real' windows settings in start menu.

I know there's another solution to do this, but i don't know where the folder is located to link it on start menu.
I won't install anything additionally for windows settings

Its not a folder to link, it's a control panel item, and therefore isn't easy to link to like programs are.
DO a google on 'links to control panel items windows mobile'

Are you actually saying that you want the settings icon in the start menu to take you to the same thing you get when you click "all settings" on the settings tab?
If so, a 30 second search of this forum turned up this post...
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=5210367&postcount=7
If that's not what you want then can you please explain better?

johncmolyneux said:
Are you actually saying that you want the settings icon in the start menu to take you to the same thing you get when you click "all settings" on the settings tab?
If so, a 30 second search of this forum turned up this post...
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=5210367&postcount=7
If that's not what you want then can you please explain better?
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I don't know what HugePan meant, but I was looking for this... works !!!

samsamuel said:
Its not a folder to link, it's a control panel item, and therefore isn't easy to link to like programs are.
DO a google on 'links to control panel items windows mobile'
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http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=791682
That's pretty easy 8)

Change the Windows Icon shortcut

Hi,
Is there any way to change the bottom left Windows Icon shortcut. Its default is the same as the middle hardkey to call the application folders. I want to change to another application.
thanks

paty said:
Hi,
Is there any way to change the bottom left Windows Icon shortcut. Its default is the same as the middle hardkey to call the application folders. I want to change to another application.
thanks
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Since you're on an EnergyROM, you have AMeBa (X-Button Settings) pre-installed.
Go to Start > Tools > X-Button Settings > there's an option there (I think it's the first page) that has things to do for the Start Button. Change that option to "Run App" and select an application you want to run when pressing that button.

It works . Thanks a lot.