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Disable scroll-bar on today screen?

Hey guys,
ive been searching for this quite long and im still searching
Is there some kind of reg-hack where i can disable the scroll-bar on my today screen?
G00gle and boardsearch doesnt help me :/

hmmmm...common sense tells me that there isn't.
how would you expect your today screen to look like if you have 6-8 today plug-ins? with no scroll bar?
i hate that scroll bar too.
so to evoide it, i keep only the Date plug-in, SPB Diary (combines messagin+callendar+tasks+contacts+notes in the same space), and SPB Plus (quick launch icons).
sow with those 3 today plugins i evoid scroll bars.
you should resize the scrollbars sizes. i use the size 8 on my M5000.
it looks very smaller but it is still touchable and draggable even with the nail of my finger.
but i don't think there is a way to get rid of the scrollbars.
what method of fitting many today plugins would you suggest? this is the only one.

Nono guys, just thinning the scrollbars is definitely not the answer.
I actually did some searching as well and I found a statement of vijay555 and it worked fine on my device. There is a registry entry that can define whether there should be a scrollbar for a today item or not. You just set "type=5" for these today items and the scrollbar disappears:
1. Backup Registry, then using a good registry editor go to
HKLM > Software > Microsoft > Today > Items
2. Find the Plugin you want to be scrollbar less, eg in my case VJAudioNotes.
3. Glance through the entries and find the one that says "Type". Double click type and change the value to 5
4. Go into Settings > Today and make some minor change to your today screen to force it to refresh (or just soft reset). Hopefully the changes will now be reflected.
This will force the plugin to the top of the screen and force scrollbars to occur under that plugin.
The thread I'm referring to is that one: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=1172614&postcount=4

Yes nice, this was exacly what i was looking for BUT after a soft reset the reg doesnt save it.... and the order of the items is wrong and cant move em in the settings... "order" reg-setting doesnt change anything :/
mhh will have a look at this.
--Edit--
Seems it does work only for the top 3 items on the list. if a 4th one is set to type = 5 an other one gets automaticly type 4 :/

It does not always work. Do we always have to replace the value by the number "5" only?
For example, if I wanted to keep the owner info up top. The original value is "0". Based on the link you posted, replace it with "5", but instead of still showing the owner info, it completely disappears from the list. I'm just experimenting anyway. As Vijay said, BACKUP 1st.

It does not always work. Do we always have to replace the value by the number "5" only?
For example, if I wanted to keep the owner info up top. The original value is "0". Based on the link you posted, replace it with "5", but instead of still showing the owner info, it completely disappears from the list. I'm just experimenting anyway. As Vijay said, BACKUP 1st.
Same thing with Calendar.

HTC Home and TouchFLO quick dial question

Hello everyone,
I just upgraded my wizard to WM6 (NBD v7.8), and so far I'm loving it. There's just one thing bothering me. When I add a contact without a photo to the fancy quick dial thingie in HTC Home/TouchFLO it displays only the contact's first name - not a good idea, especially since I want to have 3 people with the same name on that list. Is there a way to make those apps display something different? The "Nickname" field would be perfect, but I'll settle for the full name or something similar

go to the contact you want to change, then edit it, then go to File as and enter whatever you want, from now on in your contacts it will show up as whatever you put in

I think you misunderstood, I don't want to change the way the contact is displayed in "Contacts", I want to change the way it's displayed in the "HTC Home" today plugin and the "TouchFLO" app, and the File As field has no effect on that.

Changing Font of HTCHome Clock

I generally like the HTC Home plugin, although I do not particularly like the font that HTC chose for the large clock display.
I have looked through the registry, but have not been able to find the clock font details.
I do like the iPhone clock font or the font type as shown by robinVerdegaal in this (http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=355277&page=4) post:
Does any one know how to just change the font of the clock without disabling the HTC Home Plugin?
I have another question too:
Does anyone know how to update/add in to the list of cities and towns in the HTC Home weather list - once again I tried to find in the registry, but was not successful.
Many thanks
T

See here
HTC Home Plugin Customizer
Not sure it is the last. In case of doubt, do a search into the forum.
& enjoy

Thank you for the reply.
I had actually tried this program, but I was not able to get it to work.
I had tried it under a few different scenarios.
I had first changed all of the HTC Home Plugin customisations back to the defaults (by resetting the appropriate registry hacks to get back the 4 button HTC Home screen layout i.e without the Quickdial and Music Player buttons).
I then did a soft reset.
I then installed HTC Home Customiser.
When I run the program, I get the following message:
"An unexpected error has occurred in homecust.exe. Select Quit and then restart this program, or select Details for more information".
The Details are as follows:
"homecust.exe
IndexOutOfRangeException
at homecust.homecust..ctor()
at homecust.Program.Main()"
I have also tried to directly add the seperate icon files and font files into the HTC Home program files and the edit the registry to find them, but still get the same error readings.
So now I'm stuck as to what to do next.
Thanks
T

@Turnipio:
I had the seem problem initially with the same exception. You need the latest Home plugin for it to work and you can find it here.

Thanks.
I'll try it out now.
T

Abbsta said:
@Tunipio:
I had the seem problem initially with the same exception. You need the latest Home plugin for it to work and you can find it here.
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You're right ! I've forget this detail. Thanks
Turpino, just be careful with the latest plugin as you may have a problem with the "automatic" profile selection. I've tested it and remark this problem.

How much of the 6.5 start menu can be customized?

I know the background of the start menu can be changed by:
1) changing the phones wallpaper like normal
OR
2) replacing the startmenu_background_screen_"resolution".png from within the windows folder.
The second is only if you want a different wallpaper in your start menu to the rest of your phone. (the default file is just a transparent .png which shows your normal wallpaper underneath)
I know you can also change the folder icons, by changing around other png files in the window folder.
My question is how can you change the font style or more importantly the colour?
Also, is it possible to change it so it resembles the wm6.1 start menu instead of the honeycomb?
(please dont say "just use a 6.1 ROM" because i dont want to. lol. I like wm6.5 as its quicker and more finger friendly, i just want the old start menu back)

no one know how to do these things?
anyone?
PLEASE?
im desperate here
lolz

As much or as little as you wish.
Have a look at some of the stuff I posted in here :-
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=504320
Should answer a few of the basics.

Thanks for your reply, but those replies are about the today screen. I dont even use titanium any more. I find M2D more useful.
What i want to know is how to edit the Start menu.
the list of programs shown as hexagon icons
I want to change it to like how it was on wm6.1.
Just a grid of icons with words on a white background

OK, I have got what you are after... sounds like a registry hack somewhere....
Unfortunately the holiday(UK)/vacation(US), season is upon us, and I may not have found the solution for a week or two. If and when I do, I'll post it here and send you a PM.

Thank you.
Its appreciated

cris_rowlands said:
Also, is it possible to change it so it resembles the wm6.1 start menu instead of the honeycomb?
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I second this question. And what I want is better not the 'grid view'.
Better we have a registry tweak way, so that we can make a HoneyComb Toggle.
In some cases when I want more RAM, it's better to shutdown the honeycomb and the titanium today plugin.
So another question is do we have a tool to toggle the titanium? Like we can do to M2D? I know we can do it through today settings, but I'm looking for a way like regitweak or mortscript, so that I can use a shortcut to map it to a hardware button, do it within one touch.
[Edit: Got some sence for the half of first question from this thread:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=509160&highlight=start+menu
Seems the WM6.5 honeycomb start menu is an executable called shell32.exe. If so we can shut it down with a powerful task manager like DotFred's TaskMgr.exe or let it show up in the htc task manager by registry tweak and kill it. Will report it back after I test it next week. Or anybody can test it right now?
But the first question still need an answer.
Edit3: So what is the process or service of the WM6.1 start menu ? (for that I think it's not an exe) This may help to answer the question of how to resemble old start menu back.
And then what is titanium? An exe, a process or a service? Got a name?]
Thanks for any help.

there isnt!
there isnt a way to back to 6.1 start menu...
but you can use the Qucik menu that is a lil same... but you need to leave blank the cpr file for grid scene on your windows folder... then use the Quick menu that Utaker post on devs and hack forum just search with this exact words " Quickmenu instead honeycomb" you may get all the answer you need there... Oh and the honey comb can be modded in maaaany ways just search all over the devs a nd hack sections
thanks bye.

Changing default SMS/MMS program

Ok, I have a T*Mobile HTC Touch Pro2. From the home screen you see a slider bar at the bottom. One of the tabs available is for the SMS/MMS program which if I understand correctly is Manilla. This program is nice but I'm very annoyed that I have to input ONE CONTACT AT A TIME when I send a mass message...which I do very often. So here is what I wanna do...
I want to change the tab so that it pulls up a new SMS/MMS program instead of manilla. Let's call it EXAMPLE_PROG as the app I just installed SMS-CHAT doesn't do MMS as well, so I need to find a different app that includes both AND lets me do some sort of checklist to add multiple contacts at once. If you know of one, lemmie know.
Anywho, I have a registry editor and I have edited my laptop registry before so I know a little of what I am doing and I know that changing things I shouldn't COULD brick my phone. Therefore, I'm asking for help. What do I change so that choosing the MESSAGES tab brings up EXAMPLE_PROG instead?
Thanks in advance for your help.
~Native Texan (Mike)

please I need too a solution for these