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[mandt]

I cannot beleive I figured this out!

One of the most annoying things about a Pocket PC's 'Pictures and Videos' app is the way you can't tell it where to look, jeez you need to click far to many times to get to the pic or vid you want

Attached here are four shortcuts, in two zips, for you to drop into your Start Menu.
Two for \My Documents\My Pictures and \My Documents\My Videos stored on the card
Two for \My Documents\My Pictures and \My Documents\My Videos in main memory

Enjoy  

 Main_Memory.zip   363bytes   375 downloads
 Storage_Card.zip   387bytes   473 downloads

Oh and if your device saves your photos to DCIM\100MEDIA you can change that, to align with this new shortcut, by following this link

UPDATED 27/11/07
Now with different icons for each shortcut (see post 7 for preview)

 Main_memory_different_icons.zip   208.93K   356 downloads
 Storage_Card_different_icons.zip   208.96K   457 downloads

Edited by mandt, 27 November 2007 - 01:14 PM.

[Menneisyys]

Wowz! Great tip, will link to this thread in  a full article! Thanks!

[creamhackered]

Wehey nice one man

Now someone needs to work out how to get HTC Album working from the camera app hehehe

[sc0user_75]

Hey Mandt, did you manage to sort out a suitable Video Icon for the Video folder?

[mandt]

Still on my to-do list! will post here when done  

[sc0user_75]

Cool. WIll keep my eye on the thread

[mandt]

UPDATE

First post updated with new zips, each shortcut for 'Picures' and 'Videos' now has its own icon, Enjoy  

Preview:

 capture.jpg   225.05K   45 downloads

........3 to go.........

[sc0user_75]

mandt, on Nov 27 2007, 14:18, said:

UPDATE

First post updated with new zips, each shortcut for 'Picures' and 'Videos' now has its own icon, Enjoy

Preview:

capture.jpg

........3 to go.........

Thanks again Mandt :thumbs: Appreciate this.

Oh, and do we need to delete the other files first? Or can we just Overwrite your old files?

[mandt]

Overwriting the old shortcuts will be fine

[sc0user_75]

Mandt, I need your help again mate.

After I hard reset my phone, I went to install your icons again. But this time the video's icon does not show up. The pictures icon is fine. But Videos icon is a white screen with a blue strip at the top. I did a soft reset and still nothing.

I did everything in exactly the same way as before!

[mandt]

Sounds like you haven't pasted the dll in properly. DL it again and make sure you paste videos.dll into \Windows

[sc0user_75]

mandt, on Dec 3 2007, 01:10, said:

Sounds like you haven't pasted the dll in properly. DL it again and make sure you paste videos.dll into \Windows

Thanks Mandt. Alas, the DL'ing again trick didn't work. So I soft reseted a couple of times. And after a few attempts it worked fine

[badbob001]

My wm6 smartphone doesn't have a file called pimgres.dll so the icon trick doesn't work. But looking through the registry, there is some sort of alias called :pimgapp, so this works for me to show the pictures icon.

57#\Windows\pimg.exe -directory: \Storage Card\DCIM\100MEDIA?:pimgapp

NOW, when the picture viewer opens \my documents\my pictures\, I see the camera shortcut icon, which is very convenient.
Anybody know how to get the camera icon to appear when pimg is looking at another folder?
There is some sort of setting or hardcoding that makes pimg show the camera when in the 'my documents\my pictures' folder. I would really like to change that to the folder on the storage card.

[walkmypath]

Thanks! absolutely fab.  You should go join Microsoft n show them how it should be done!