I updated my I-mate sp5 to WM6 and started playing with a theme. It all seemed to work fine until i changed some reg settings as described in this text:
In a registry editor go to this key:
HKLM/Software/Microsoft/Shell/Rai/:MSStart
Check if you have an entry called "BKBitmapFile". If you do not, create a new "String" value.
Name : BKBitmapFile
Value data: \Application Data\Home\startmenubg.bmp
Add the following lines to the same key :MSStart
a Dword value with the name BKBitmapLogPixelsX and the data value 131 in decimal
a Dword value with the name BKBitmapLogPixelsY and the data value 131 in decimal
a Dword value with the name BKBitmapTransparent and the data value 16711935 in decimal (or FF00FF in hexa )
a Dword value with the name BKDefaultGradient and the data value 1 in decimal
a Dword value with the name BKFlags and the data value 26 in decimal
and finally a String value with the name BKUnselected and the value data COLOR_ALERTWINDOW
Copy startmenubg.bmp to
\Application Data\Home\
Soft-reset your device.
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Then i didn't like it and deleted the added keys and the background... now my start menu is empty... not just invisible, when i press the right buttons i get nowhere. I just get a black screen saying More and Menu.
In the file explorer I see all the items in Windows\Start Menu so that shouldn't be the problem... Changing the theme to another one and rebooting didn't work.
Please help me!!
dutchguys said:
I updated my I-mate sp5 to WM6 and started playing with a theme. It all seemed to work fine until i changed some reg settings as described in this text:
Then i didn't like it and deleted the added keys and the background... now my start menu is empty... not just invisible, when i press the right buttons i get nowhere. I just get a black screen saying More and Menu.
In the file explorer I see all the items in Windows\Start Menu so that shouldn't be the problem... Changing the theme to another one and rebooting didn't work.
Please help me!!
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How about undoing all the registry changes you did, and rebooting? Otherwise you will have to do a hard reset.
Could some one check what the number is at this reg location :- HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE (HKLM) \SYSTEM\GWE\cxVScr .
Changed it to get rid of scroll bars and now changed my mind, forgot to make a note of original, Doh.
TIA
Ixtana_ran said:
Could some one check what the number is at this reg location :- HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE (HKLM) \SYSTEM\GWE\cxVScr .
Changed it to get rid of scroll bars and now changed my mind, forgot to make a note of original, Doh.
TIA
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mine is set to 13 dword.
Thanks Just what I needed.
Hi!
First post here.
I don't want the sms-functionality of TF3D active due to different reasons (prying eyes for example).
Is it possible to do: "create new sms" when i hold down the left soft-key?
Perhaps a ".exe" file for such a feature exists?
Other shortcuts perhaps?
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soundie said:
Hi!
First post here.
I don't want the sms-functionality of TF3D active due to different reasons (prying eyes for example).
Is it possible to do: "create new sms" when i hold down the left soft-key?
Perhaps a ".exe" file for such a feature exists?
Other shortcuts perhaps?
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Get a new bf/gf
- sorry for OT, I don't know of any shortcuts.
soundie, I used HDTweak to change the left soft-key option from 'Phone' to 'New SMS', so now I can start a new SMS with a single tap from the home screen.
HDTweak here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=452505
Hope that is what you were looking for...
Don't be lazy
Just to help ya out: LINK
Thanks
Great solutions both the alternatives
Thanx.
Create shortcut
Hi
Here's my solution:
Make a new .txt file and in it write:
44#\Windows\tmail.exe -service "SMS" -to ""
rename this file to New SMS.lnk (i.e. change the extension to .lnk)
Copy this link file to \Windows\Start Menu\Programs
Select the New SMS "application" to one of your buttons in Settings>Personal>Buttons.
Cheers
andrew-in-woking
hehe
that method hadnt even crossed my mind.
great solution - went for that one.
thnx.
andrew-in-woking said:
Hi
Here's my solution:
Make a new .txt file and in it write:
44#\Windows\tmail.exe -service "SMS" -to ""
rename this file to New SMS.lnk (i.e. change the extension to .lnk)
Copy this link file to \Windows\Start Menu\Programs
Select the New SMS "application" to one of your buttons in Settings>Personal>Buttons.
Cheers
andrew-in-woking
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Thanx its working exactly how it needed!
Its not very related to thread but can you tell how to change icon to this shortcut instead of default icon?
10x.
soundie said:
hehe
that method hadnt even crossed my mind.
great solution - went for that one.
thnx.
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The link I posted does the same. You will find the New SMS link in the Windows folder though
Check out my signature
bnm7bnm said:
Thanx its working exactly how it needed!
Its not very related to thread but can you tell how to change icon to this shortcut instead of default icon?
10x.
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Hi bnm7bnm
Check out the start menu customisation link in my signature. Obviously you might not want to use those icons but hopefully it will help you identify how to change an icon.
By the way, I am just about to release a new icon set for start menu and ROM icons customisation so will notify you about that.
Cheers
andrew-in-woking
andrew-in-woking said:
Hi bnm7bnm
Check out the start menu customisation link in my signature. Obviously you might not want to use those icons but hopefully it will help you identify how to change an icon.
By the way, I am just about to release a new icon set for start menu and ROM icons customisation so will notify you about that.
Cheers
andrew-in-woking
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Thanx but your customization is too complex (i'm afraid of files named DLL) & its for folders...
i found solution, for program links & png icons need to set in registry
HKLM\Security\Shell\StartInfo\Start\PROGRAM NAME.lnk\Icon:\windows\ICON NAME.png
Hello. to everybody.
I am trying to fix the reappearing HTC Icons from Start Menu with the tweaks advised in some threads but they don't work.
Even if I change the HKCU Dword string to 0 (HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\HTC\Manila\IsShortcutEnable), they again reappear but without the icon (only a sad and ugly grey icon)....
Does anybody know something more to fix this annoying issue?
Thx in advance.
Diamantes said:
Hello. to everybody.
I am trying to fix the reappearing HTC Icons from Start Menu with the tweaks advised in some threads but they don't work.
Even if I change the HKCU Dword string to 0 (HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\HTC\Manila\IsShortcutEnable), they again reappear but without the icon (only a sad and ugly grey icon)....
Does anybody know something more to fix this annoying issue?
Thx in advance.
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After doing that, you need to actually delete the shortcuts yourself.
Open file explorer and navigate to Windows\Start Menu\Programs.
Locate the shortcuts (you'll recognise them from the default icon that you've already seen) and delete them.
The registry change you described simply stops the shortcuts from being recreated when you restart the device.
Try this cab , i used it , it works .
6/12 -09 Touch X Permanently Delete Reappearing HTC Icons.cab -Permanently Delete Reappearing HTC Icons from Start Menu (see tweak 42 in tboy2000 thread here)
http://www.ad-grafiska.se/HD2/LEO TWEAKS/Touch X Permanently Delete Reappearing HTC Icons.cab
Or if none of the above don't work for some reason the you need to make the shortcuts hidden in file properties using a good file explorer, after doing the reg tweaks also.
johncmolyneux said:
After doing that, you need to actually delete the shortcuts yourself.
Open file explorer and navigate to Windows\Start Menu\Programs.
Locate the shortcuts (you'll recognise them from the default icon that you've already seen) and delete them.
The registry change you described simply stops the shortcuts from being recreated when you restart the device.
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Bro, of course I did it!My surprise is that they reappear without icon (only grey) after soft reset...
tboy2000 said:
Or if none of the above don't work for some reason the you need to make the shortcuts hidden in file properties using a good file explorer, after doing the reg tweaks also.
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Man, "Power is nothing without control"... Do you remember the tv spot? Your trick is KISS... I didn't think about it!
Ah, experience.....
I will try...
Thx
johncmolyneux said:
After doing that, you need to actually delete the shortcuts yourself.
Open file explorer and navigate to Windows\Start Menu\Programs.
Locate the shortcuts (you'll recognise them from the default icon that you've already seen) and delete them.
The registry change you described simply stops the shortcuts from being recreated when you restart the device.
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Thanks for this info. I've been searching for a number of days trying to figure out how to remove these default icons. I've no idea where they sprung up from. Anyway, they've now gone!
what if i want the sortcuts back with the default icons on start?
After searching a while, and partly thanks to poyensa who pointed me to maxtf3d tool, I compared the whole HKCU and HKLM reg trees before and after using that to change the softkey colours, and here's the summary:
Go into the following reg folder
Code:
HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Today
and create (if not already present) a string key named
Code:
Skin
in which you insert any name (example "myskin") and then create a folder in the same path with the same name of the skin and go in there.
In case the key "skin" already exists you have to go into the folder which goes by that name.
The key
Code:
Color_CommandBarText
is the one you want, if already present in the preset theme you need to change it, if instead you created the skin reference, or the key was not present in the preset theme, create a BINARY key by that name, and insert a 4bytes value inside.
For the black value it would be
Code:
00 00 00 00
Restart, the softkeys text colour will have changed.
To change the application name in the taskbar, you have to go into
Code:
HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Color\
and add a BINARY key (if not already present) named
Code:
9
in which you set the text colour in the same manner you did for the softkeys. Restart, served.
The colour for the start menu icons text should be situated in that same folder, in the BINARY key named 39, yet adding that key and restarting doesn't work.
Absolutely noone knows?
Yes, this is a bump
Hellooww
I know as a fact that it's possible, as GTX sports black text softkeys... noone actually cares to share the info?
Have a look HERE my friend...I suppose it could help you !
try this http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=493011
for me HD2 it works but only the tab for color>commandbar text, active enable box and once you have choose your favourite color in RGBA code press activate, TRefresh and softeresset afterwards
Method posted by poyensa worked, I could finally change the text colour of the softkeys using his instructions... thank you
Yet I am prone to tin2404 approach, as I need to know *how* to change that, I mean registry wise or manila wise, which are the things that I manually need to change, otherwise after each flash I will need to use max tf3d utility
Updated thread with working method.
Thankyou ephestione, i have changed the color blue (08 08 8A) using your instructions and it works!
Hi, in your first part of changing the softkey bar text you don't need to add a new skin you only have to go into HTC Black.tsk or whichever theme you're using, then edit the Color_CommandBarText with the colour code you wish to use (default is white FF FF FF 00). In here you can also edit the highlight colour of the text (Color_CommandBarText_Highlight). Hope this helps.
AvRS said:
Hi, in your first part of changing the softkey bar text you don't need to add a new skin you only have to go into HTC Black.tsk or whichever theme you're using, then edit the Color_CommandBarText with the colour code you wish to use (default is white FF FF FF 00). In here you can also edit the highlight colour of the text (Color_CommandBarText_Highlight). Hope this helps.
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Yes, I have read about that also in MS KB, yet I had no entry whatsoever for any skin under that registry folder, I had to create one specifically for that purpose...
@poyensa, karma going back and forth, you pointed me to max tf3d utility, and only then I could "reverse engineer" it to devise a method
Hi all,
newbie questions,
how to add a new binary key using the PHM registry editor?
How to change the color of the taskbar clock's number?
Thanks in advance.
Sorry I don't use PHM regeditor, but for that purpose I use totalcommander, go into \\plugins folder in root, then registry, then continue from there. pressing the +Add Value+ item
Also DotFred's advanced taskmanager has a registry editor which is not bad at all
ephestione said:
Sorry I don't use PHM regeditor, but for that purpose I use totalcommander, go into \\plugins folder in root, then registry, then continue from there. pressing the +Add Value+ item
Also DotFred's advanced taskmanager has a registry editor which is not bad at all
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Hi ephestione,
You made my day! Thank u very much!
I installed totalcommander and followed all your instructions and I did it successfully.
Any idea on how to change the color of the taskbar clock?
Thanks in advance.
ehm, no idea about that one
Anyway happy you found a functional registry editor, also, totalcommander is a great tool in general
Anyway, if skinning the taskbar clock is what you're after, then you gotta get BattClock, search in XDA forums for that
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ehm, no idea about that one
Anyway happy you found a functional registry editor, also, totalcommander is a great tool in general
Anyway, if skinning the taskbar clock is what you're after, then you gotta get BattClock, search in XDA forums for that
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Hi Ephestione,
Yeah, you're right, totalcommander is a great one, I'm playing with it now and it's really good, btw do u know how to go back to a previous step?
Also, I appreciate your suggestion about BattClock which is very good app, but personally I like the simplicity and nice look of the Battline one and unfortunately there is a kind of conflict between those programs.
Thank you very much.
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Hi Ephestione,
Yeah, you're right, totalcommander is a great one, I'm playing with it now and it's really good, btw do u know how to go back to a previous step?
Also, I appreciate your suggestion about BattClock which is very good app, but personally I like the simplicity and nice look of the Battline one and unfortunately there is a kind of conflict between those programs.
Thank you very much.
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What conflict is there? Do the Stripes occupy the same space? If yes, just make them empty in BattClock or put them in another place or show other information.