Hi -- Is there any way to keep Windows Mobile from automatically deleting items from \Windows\Start Menu\ when I put more than seven shortcuts in there? PointUI will display the extra items -- even if the standard Windows Start Menu won't! -- and it's irritating that Windows keeps on automatically deleting them. There must be a way to prevent this -- either by increasing the number of shortcuts permitted in the Start Menu, or by keeping Windows Mobile from deleting my extra items to enforce its limit.
Ideas?
Thanks!
Alan
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Can I delete items from the desktop of my XDA. There is an Agile Messenger message there that I do not want and do not know how to remove it.
Thanks.
My expirience: many of apps requires registry cleaning...
system->today->item
uncheck the ones you dont want
otherwise you need to edit your registry to remove the items
Hi Guys
I came about this and thought That I would post it here for all those users that are missing the New Menu function in WM5.
It was posted in a webis Mail Group by a "Mark"
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Using the WM5 New Menu With PI
One thing that earlier versions of Windows Mobile had that is missing from WM5 is a "New Menu" on the today screen. This handy little menu used to contain shortcuts to creating new items of various types, such as appointments, tasks, Word documents or notes. PI used to add its own shortcuts to this menu, and it's sadly missed by many people.
Without the menu, new items have to be created by first opening the programme in question, and then selecting "new" from within it.
There are two workarounds available. The first is to use the shortcuts contained in the "Informant Utils" folder that PI puts into Programs in the start menu. This works well, but can take several taps, and PI will load fully each time you use one, before the relevant new item dialogue box appears. Obviously the folder only contains shortcuts relevant to PI too, so it's no help as a one-stop-shop for creating new items of all types.
The second method is to use a handy, and free, third party utility called the WM5 New Menu, available from http://www.saman-cz.com/ppc/index.html?nmnovrw.html. Basically you get the old New Menu back, though in a much more configurable version.
Having installed the utility, and without any further configuration, you'll have a menu available which will contain shortcuts to a standard list of new document types, including appointments, tasks and contacts. However, assuming you have PI set as the default PIM, these items will behave in the same way as the shortcuts in Informant Utils do - they'll fully open PI at the same time as opening the new item dialogue, which you may not want.
A bit of additional configuration can overcome the issue. Firstly, download and instal "NewMenuItems_English.ARM.cab" from http://download.pocketinformant.com/6/CAB/NewMenuItems_English.ARM.cab. This will instal the old WM2003 shortcuts, though you won't see any change to anything just yet.
Now go into settings for the WM5 New Menu, and on the second tab add a new item, selecting "New items sub menu" as the type (remember to name it - I used "New..". Confirm that, then double tap on "New.." in the list to see its contents. Uncheck the ones you don't want, and then tap back. You can now uncheck the items that are duplicates of those in your new sub-menu.
It may seem subtle, but the shortcuts in the New Items submenu WON'T launch PI when you select them, which makes them much more elegant.
It's a shame these old style shortcuts have to be in a sub-menu and can't be included in the main menu, and/or that you can't put other items in the sub-menu with them, but nothing's perfect!
The utility is way more than a re-instatement of the old New Menu BTW - you can have up to six levels of cascade to it, can open all kinds of files and shortcuts, and best of all you can add shortcuts to dial out or send an SMS to specific contacts.
Hope that's OK.
Mark
All,
One thing that has always bugged me in Windows Mobile is the fact that "Remove Programs" isn't sorted alphabetically. Instead it is sorted by the order you have installed programs. If you ever restore from SPB Backup it then inverts this order as well.
Is there any registry settings or hack that can be done to sort this list alphabetically by default?
Thanks,
Jeff
In my HTC TD's "Tasks" application I have tons of completed tasks making the applictaion almost useless. How can I delete/purge these?
I have looked trough all the menu's I could find, and searched this board and googled different search-terms, but I cannot find the howto.
I'm sure it's quite easy once you know how?
There is an option to filter completed tasks. Press the right softkey and scroll down. The option is there.
I just tab and hold in the normal task app
it's in the contex menu
or I mark a task and choose delete from the menu
of cause maybe you're not talking about the normal
std task app
asbestos said:
There is an option to filter completed tasks. Press the right softkey and scroll down. The option is there.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Thanks, but I do not want old tasks filling my memory. I want them deleted from my phone.
Rudegar said:
I just tab and hold in the normal task app
it's in the contex menu
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Thanks - that works, but with 2-300 completed tasks I'd like to find a way to delete all the completed tasks (and appointments in my calendar) in one go. I seem to recall a "purge" function somewhere - but perhaps I'm confusing it with my old Treo 650?
I had this problem a while ago, I think it had something to do with Activesync changing the way it worked, I had an old Dell Axim and used the task function, but I'm fairly sure it there was an option not to resync the completed task back to the device once 'Completed', so if I created a task it stayed active on both my PC and PDA, then if I checked it as 'Completed' on my pda (or PC) it removed it from my pda and it just sat hidden in Outlook...
...then I upgraded to an XDA Orbit and also updated Activesync, once they had all sync'd I found the tasks application on the XDA to be slow to the level of being useless, I found it now had all my tasks active and completed, I think it was in the region of 900 tasks!
Simple solution was to filter them in Outlook (PC) and just delete them, solved that problem.
When you go to settings of Word Mobile 2010, you see the options of template, save (memory or card) and listview (for excample: viewing word files only).
When I change this and press on ok, its fine. But when I close word mobile completely (in stead of minimizing) the settings go back to standard settings.
This doesnt happen on Excel Mobile 2010. The settings stays how I canged first.
Is there a fix for Word Mobile 2010? Or how can I let the settings stay how they are?