[MDA III, XDA III, PDA2k, 9090 Software Upgrading] red_hanks:
A Neat Way to Customize and Organize Your Programs

User ycimpir has made an automated install of what some people would consider customization or organization.

The fact is that after a while, your Programs folder in the Start Menu can get really cluttered as you install your apps. Some custom ROMs already customize and organize the Programs into subfolders and this is exactly what this automated application does. It will create empty subfolders in your Start Menu’s Programs folder and customize them with specific naming and icons, so that after installing this small tweak, you can move your already existing shortcuts to these subsequent folders and have a neat and tidy way of keeping things organized.

Folder Icons support both QVGA and VGA screen resolutions for the Windows Mobile Professional platform. Just download the free CAB file and run it; after that, fire up your Windows Explorer (or your third party alternative), navigate to \Windows\Start Menu\Programs and move your shortcuts to their respective folders.

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John C Molyneux’s Hide Folders is a must have tiny utility that will help you a lot if are looking for a free and easy way to hiding your folders on a Windows Mobile Professional device.

The application is a simple tree-like representation of your folders found both on your Device and Storage card and it allows you to tap and hold on a/several folder/s of your liking and “Toggle hidden state”, by which Hide Folders applies a Hidden attribute to the selected items, thus making them not appear in File Explorer with the default “Show All Files” option unselected. The only downside is that you can’t select files but we hope for that functionality in future releases.

After download, install Hide Folders to device; according to the author, it is compatible with any version of Windows Mobile Professional from 4 upwards, sporting .NET Compact Framework 2.0, which is stock on most devices.

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FOR ADVANCED USERS

COPIED FROM http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=481880

Improve program launch times - UPX Squeezer BATCH

this is an old trick that was/is used for older devices to fit WinMo 6 on them

but a side effect is faster application load times

i figured i'd try it on the Blackstone and difference is noticeable

HTCAlbum loads in about 1 Second, before it took about 4

so i'm sharing this with anyone who is interested

The batch file is kept as simple as possible for everyone's ease of use

but this is pretty advanced tweaking, so all common warnings apply

and/or

if you are not comfortable with getting files from/to your PocketPC

and/or

can't figure out how to extract this zip and read the "read me.txt"

and/or

don't know what “any key” :) is DO NOT TRY THIS!

(read the forum and the wiki a bit more, and you'll gain the knowledge)

Version History:

v 1.0 - initial release

v 1.1 - no icon compression switch added to the batch, for more general compatability

to get you started ;)

a short list of EXEs that i have UPXed and work well for me

AdobeReaderLE.exe

ASyncKiller.exe

BCR.exe

Camera.exe

FMRadio.exe

GoogleMaps.exe

HTCAlbum.exe

iContact.exe

KeePassPPC.exe

kinoma.exe

Labyrinth.exe

LongPressEndKeyApp.exe

MP3Trimmer.exe

MusicID.exe

Opera9.exe

OperaL.exe

QuickGPS.exe

RSSHub.exe

s2p.exe

s2u2 Settings.exe

s2v.exe

StreamingPlayer.exe

TomTom Navigator.exe

USBtoPC.exe

WMRegOptimizer.exe

YotaCenter.exe

YotaCenterUpdater.exe

YouTube.exe

...

and here is a list of things NOT to compress

manila.exe

cprog.exe

thumbCal.exe

calculator.exe

wt5jetpr.exe

any DLL

...

Get it HERE

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