[Touch Cruise ROM Development] cruiserrr:
Start Menu pcarvalho 21820LT / WM6.5 UC & Tweaks / phoneAlarm Skin & WM6.5 plugin

Hi, if you are using the Lite Edition , you can try these buttons: (It should work with any rom though)

Cabs latest uploaded: Aug 5th

It uses Bluemetalaxe Icons to create nice looking folders:

It remaps all programs installed by the Lite Edition (other than System Tools, Settings and Games) in the start menu into those folders: GPS, Multimedia, etc. (moves the shortcut, creates reg keys and deletes old reg keys). Thefore you will have easy access to 9x9x2 programs with only one sliding gesture.

It (will) make windows folder lighter: icons are installed in "Program Files/Cruiserrr start menu" and in the short term I will modify the cab so that the old icons are deleted from the windows folder.

Why? well, if you install many programs, you know why...

INSTALLATION NOTES:

Disable S2U2.

Simply install the cab/s (only in main memory) and reset.

It runs smooth but initial load takes a little longer, wait until the signal is back and the task bar battery icon refreshes. Otherwise some folders and icons may not load and will need a new soft reset.

Be aware that any of the original shortcuts icons customized will be replaced by the ones in the cab ! make sure you do not loose any png images that you do not have a copy.

It has been done with CabWizSP.exe with post xml provisioning. I can post the "kitchen" so anybody can adapt to their taste: replace icons or destination folders (or learn how to create cab files for device customization).

Uninstall: Does not work: you end with no shortcuts. Should be easy to uninstall simply importing the file "mxipinit_startmenu_001.provxml" with fdcsoft task manager and deleting all the folders and corresponding regkeys, and the folder containing the icons: program files\cruiserrr start menu.

CREDITS: Even if it is not useful for anybody, at least is a small tribute to pcarvalho and bluemetalaxe.

QUICK INDEX

Post 6: Details on the Folders and shortcuts in each Folder

Post 7: wm6.5 Customization: TimeZone / Wallpaper

Post 8: phoneAlarm stuff: wm6 WM7ish plug-in and Titanium cPhoneAlarm plugin

CHANGES:

[*] Added mortscript shortcuts to the extended menu: btsync, sdconfig autorun, backlight cycle, Toogle ActiveSync/Softick Card Explorer by Twolf...

[*] Added phonealarm tab with shortcuts to the different menus

TODO LIST:

Add version to the cab's (Any help?)

Reduce png footprint (if bluemetalaxe agrees, of course)

Add mortscript shortcuts to the extended menu: update online content when wifi connected, launch program with skin rotation, backup settings, restore settings...

Add a widgets folder

Uninstall: restore pcarvalho original settings

Purge icons: delete non used pcarvalho icons

Extended registry: add additional registry keys/icons for other programs installed by the standard non-3d rom and the 3d rom.

Split the extended version in two cabs: one for freeware appls (acrobat reader, rss hub, powerradio, googlemaps) and some freebies (wifi on-off, btaudiotoggle, screen rotate, bl05 (backlight cycle control)...) and the other for 3rd party apps.

Split phonealarm stuff in a separate cab.

Recode using strings, so it is easier to change destination folders.

What is the idea behind the "extended" versions?: Need not to reinstall most of the programs in the SDcard and loose lots of time classifying them in folders and changing icon, order or location, after a hard-reset/re-flash.

Please, if you try it, give me feedback specially if you try to uninstall or install in non Lite Roms .