HOW TO: make 'Pictures and Videos' open in a folder of your choice

[Guest 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

Storage_Card.zip

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

Storage_Card_different_icons.zip

Edited November 27, 2007 by mandt

[Guest Menneisyys]

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

[Guest creamhackered]

Wehey nice one man ;)

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

[Guest sc0user_75]

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

[Guest mandt]

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

[Guest sc0user_75]

Cool. WIll keep my eye on the thread :(

[Guest mandt]

UPDATE

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

Preview:

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

[Guest sc0user_75]

UPDATE

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

Preview:

........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?

[Guest mandt]

Overwriting the old shortcuts will be fine

[Guest 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!

[Guest mandt]

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

[Guest sc0user_75]

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 :(

[Guest 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.

[Guest walkmypath]

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