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Metro reimagined – Concepts Series for Windows Phone

Yanko Andreev — Sat, 14 Apr 2012 15:30:16 +0000

Metro reimagined

The current concept will take us in the future Apollo update of Windows Phone – with bigger and higher resolution screens, that will give us more information and ways to customize. I want to see a beautiful phone with a 5″ display and 1280*800 resolution till the end of the year. And here is how I imagine it.

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Start Launcher 2.1 – assign multiple programs to start button on Windows Mobile

kinnikun — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 03:54:59 +0000

Start Launcher 2.1

Start Launcher, created by bartwell, is a tiny program allowing you to assign any program to a short or long tap to the standard Windows Mobile Start Button. The program is written without Dot Net, using Native C++, so it’s small and does not consume resources. Works on QVGA, VGA and WVGA devices with WM2003, 5, 6, 6.1, 6.5 (if the Start button placed on the left upper corner only).

Usage:

The progran includes a config utility. After install, you should go to Start\Programs\Start Launcher, choose your display type (VGA or QVGA) and assign programs for long and short taps. If you prefer keeping the default action for short tap (start menu), just don’t mark the corresponding field.

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Replace Windows Mobile 6.5 hexagon menu with List menu

sakshamkatyal — Sun, 28 Jun 2009 13:51:14 +0000

StartMenuList

Dont like the all new hexagonal start meny of Windows Mobile 6.5? Try this tweak & change the style of your start menu yourself.

Requirement:
Any QVGA pocketpc device

Installation:
Backup the device first !!
Copy the files in the zip to your windows directory & softreset.

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Start Menu service 1.6 – a different start menu experience

Saijo George — Thu, 06 Nov 2008 10:46:54 +0000

Start Menu

The Start Menu is just one more replacement for the standard menu found on windows mobile pocket pcs. The main difference is that it has been made as a service and so does not need to be launched on startup, it is done automatically, and it is not an extra exe, but a dll loaded by services.exe

Notice:
Change the settings folder name in the registry if the StartMenu\Settings folder has another name.
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Services\FdcStartMenu] "SettingsFolderName"="Settings"
For instance in French, it should be:
“SettingsFolderName”=”Paramètres”

Installation instructions:
Sometimes the setup of the cab file doesn’t install everything as it should. This could be solved by following the procedure described below.

1) Launch TaskMgr (TM) (TaskMgr)
2) From Menu->Actions select Register dll and browse \Windows directory and select ppcmenu.dll
3) Do a soft reset
4) Verify that it works after the reboot by clicking the start button only, not the “Start” text or whatever the translation is, if your device is not in English. This is done by purpose, so both menus (mine and default one) are accessible.

you can also verify, if the service has started, by launching TM and selecting the services Tab.

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