Vista-ish WM5 QVGA Homescreen

[Guest nickcornaglia]

Did I promise that???? I guess I did. I'll try to do it soon.

I need to play with SmartMonitor on WM5 to see what I'm going to put there.

Thanks for the reminder.

[Guest BrAGoL]

well, it's just a wake-up call ;)

[Guest dineshh]

Submitted this to the downloads section but I dont know if I did it correctly.

Plugins Used/Required:

1) Owner (pre-installed)

2) Carrier (pre-installed)

3) Messaging (pre-installed)

4) Facade (free download from http://www.sbsh.com)

5) Missed Calls (pre-installed)

6) Profile (pre-installed)

7) Fizz Traveller (Pay download from http://www.fizzsoftware.com)

To Install Homescreen:

1) Place all files in "Application Data/Home" Folder

2) Navigate to Settings > HomeScreen

3) Change Homescreen Layout to "Vista-ish"

4) Change Color Scheme to "Default"

5) Change Background Image to "Default"

To Change Start Menu Background...Change Registry to:

1) Navigate to:    HKLM/Software/Microsoft/Shell/Rai/:MSStart

2) Click on:  Values

3) Check if you have an entry called "BKBitmapFile". If you do not, create a new "String" value.

Name : BKBitmapFile

Value data: \Application Data\Home\BKBitmap.jpg (this is the path to image file)

Have Fun!

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Can you add channels display on home screen also, as it displays cell info about location

[Guest nickcornaglia]

No. But feel free to modify it yourself and post it here if you'd like. ;)

[Guest dmarsh]

Thanks. It's an instance of the launcher bar. I cant take credit for that. It's documented on SBSH.net in the Facade forum.

By the way....Newbies Note:

You need to open the XML file (with a plain text editor like notepad) to edit the shortcuts so they point to the correct location of shortcuts and programs on YOUR phone.

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As a Newbie on editing XML files - exactly which part of the file do you have to change to get the apps to point correctly?

I have the file in Notepad ready to change

Many thanks

[Guest Disco Stu]

Scroll down to :

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Then below that see the lines that start ":)