Is it possible to change the program icons in WM5?

[Guest paholman]

Hi,

Apologies if this was already covered, I couldn't find it.

I would like to change the icons, using *.ico files on the Storage Card, but not sure if it's possible

I tried this one here but it doesn't work unfortunately with Windows Mobile 5.

Has anyone managed to do this, or know if it's possible?

Saying "it's not possible" would save me a great deal of time, and I'll give up now :D

Thanks in advanced

[Guest sda_newbie]

Hi,

Apologies if this was already covered, I couldn't find it.

I would like to change the icons, using *.ico files on the Storage Card, but not sure if it's possible

I tried this one here but it doesn't work unfortunately with Windows Mobile 5.

Has anyone managed to do this, or know if it's possible?

Saying "it's not possible" would save me a great deal of time, and I'll give up now :D

Thanks in advanced

The instruction given by your link is the correct one on how to change your program icon. I have the SDA which runs WM5 and I was able to do it via the same set of instruction. One thing to watch out for is when you edit the lnk file don't try to be "too smart" (I learned the hard way... I struggle with it for almost for a hour + before figuring it out) by adding the quotes around the path to your icon file. So for example:

The following will NOT work (DO NOT DO THE FOLLOWING):

42#:MSSettings?"\Storage Card\Application Data\Home\gpc.icons.exe,-4"

While the following would be the correct way to do it:

42#:MSSettings?\Storage Card\Application Data\Home\gpc.icons.exe,-4

Hope this helps. Good luck!

[Guest paholman]

The instruction given by your link is the correct one on how to change your program icon. I have the SDA which runs WM5 and I was able to do it via the same set of instruction. One thing to watch out for is when you edit the lnk file don't try to be "too smart" (I learned the hard way... I struggle with it for almost for a hour + before figuring it out) by adding the quotes around the path to your icon file. So for example:

The following will NOT work (DO NOT DO THE FOLLOWING):

42#:MSSettings?"\Storage Card\Application Data\Home\gpc.icons.exe,-4"

While the following would be the correct way to do it:

42#:MSSettings?\Storage Card\Application Data\Home\gpc.icons.exe,-4

Hope this helps. Good luck!

Thanks for the reply.

Will try again, it must have been something i did wrong.

Do I have to use *.exe Icon library files or can I use *.icl or *.ico files?

[Guest scudo]

Do I have to use *.exe Icon library files or can I use *.icl or *.ico files?

hi

ICO should work well, but I think that ICL should be converted to DLL (using Gconvert for example..) to be used.

[Guest moidavid45]

hi

ICO should work well, but I think that ICL should be converted to DLL (using Gconvert for example..) to be used.

Can you tell me how I have to do?! Cause I tried but it didn't work...

I put 42#:MSSettings?\Storage Card\Application Data\Home\setting.ico

Thank you.

[Guest scudo]

Can you tell me how I have to do?! Cause I tried but it didn't work...

I put 42#:MSSettings?\Storage Card\Application Data\Home\setting.ico

Thank you.

hi

try adding ,0 after :

42#:MSSettings?\Storage Card\Application Data\Home\setting.ico,0

[Guest paholman]

hi

try adding ,0 after :

42#:MSSettings?\Storage Card\Application Data\Home\setting.ico,0

Hi Scudo,

I can't seem to change any shortcuts that are installed as part of the ROM file as it says I don't have permission to overwrite it, or check it's read-only. Any ideas on that?

Anyhoo, tried the above with a couple of programs I'd installed such as Agile Messenger but still didn't work.

Sorry, nice idea, but do you have any other suggestions?

Does it work on your phone with *.ico files?

[Guest scudo]

I can't seem to change any shortcuts that are installed as part of the ROM file as it says I don't have permission to overwrite it, or check it's read-only. Any ideas on that?

Hi

is your phone app unlocked ? you can change some of protected (but not all) files after unlocking..

Anyhoo, tried the above with a couple of programs I'd installed such as Agile Messenger but still didn't work.

Sorry, nice idea, but do you have any other suggestions?

Does it work on your phone with *.ico files?

for my part, I didn't tried :D , but change-icon tweak is for folders not for prog shortcut...

[Guest paholman]

Hi

is your phone app unlocked ? you can change some of protected (but not all) files after unlocking..

Thanks, after unlocking my phone I can change these files, however it still did not change the settings icon

Hi

... but change-icon tweak is for folders not for prog shortcut...

Are you sure about this? :D The example in the Change Icon post covers both folders and shortcuts.

The example above is settings.lnk where .lnk is a shortcut and not a folder :D

[Guest scudo]

Thanks, after unlocking my phone I can change these files, however it still did not change the settings icon

Are you sure about this? :D The example in the Change Icon post covers both folders and shortcuts.

The example above is settings.lnk where .lnk is a shortcut and not a folder :D

hi

my fault :D ... I didn't take care it was settings icon.

yes settings is a shortcut. but you can notice there is an hand-over (icon changes when selecting it).

the reason is that icons for settings are in registry :

original shortcut look like this :

42#:MSSettings?:settings

if you go into registry to HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\settings

you will see

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\settings]

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\settings\SelectIcon]

(dafault)="shellres.dll,-8319"

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\settings\DefaultIcon]

(dafault)="shellres.dll,-8318"

try change the both default values for yours :D

[Guest paholman]

hi

my fault :rolleyes: ... I didn't take care it was settings icon.

yes settings is a shortcut. but you can notice there is an hand-over (icon changes when selecting it).

the reason is that icons for settings are in registry :

original shortcut look like this :

42#:MSSettings?:settings

if you go into registry to HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\settings

you will see

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\settings]

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\settings\SelectIcon]

(dafault)="shellres.dll,-8319"

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\settings\DefaultIcon]

(dafault)="shellres.dll,-8318"

try change the both default values for yours :(

Hi Scudo,

Thanks for your assistance on this. I couldn't get it to work with *.ico files, so decided to create my own icon resource library from these instructions:- http://www.gpcarreon.com/?p=18

Works fine.

Thanks again