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Today screen icons

Hello all
I have searched this forum for ages now, about 70 pages, and can;t find anything to do with what i want to do.
Basically i want to change the default icons on the today screen, like for messages, and calender and tasks.
Is it possible and if so how do you go about doing it, i imagine that it has something to do with the plugin DLL's but i am not sure.
Thanks
Dahquim

Dahquim: I've never tried it, but as these are system dlls, likely steps are do a live rom dump, grab the necessary dlls from the dump (deriving the necessary names from the "Today" dll entries in your registry).
From there, do a resource hack of the dlls, replace the bitmaps/icons, and then save, and overwrite back into your windows folder.
Being ROM/system dlls, it's likely the OS won't let you overwrite these dlls (in which case you would have to write your own rom).
It's also likely the ROM dump procedure will not dump the resource entries (bitmaps/icons etc) correctly, so the whole procedure may be futile. You could try to sidestep this by extracting the files from a decompressed ROM, but that can also often fail to produce (easily) usable dlls.
It may be very easy and I just make it sound hard. It may be very hard and I just make it sound harder.
But, all in, it may be easier to replace the plugins with 3rd party components.
V

Thanks VJ
And weldone on some great software.
Unfortunately I am only a ASP programmer, so have little experience with DLL files. The icon that i want to change is the Messages icon, as this is the only plugin that i want to change, can u recommend any plugins that have the same functionality (which is very little) that has a customisable icon??
Thanks All

Generally I'd recommend PhoneAlarm, but I'm not 100% sure it's WM5 yet. Depends on what you're using. It provides a lot of functionality in one place
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Otherwise, not sure, I stick with PA or write my own.
V

WP7 (.exe and .dll in Windows Folder??)

Ok, if MS created a new OS with unsupported files like .dll, exe and .cab; then why can i find those extensions in Windows Folder of my HD7?
Any chance to edit them or something?

It's a new OS based on Windows CE so the binaries are still exe. Just like in iOS, where the binaries are still Unix binaries.
However all apps in WP7 are required to be xap.
The dlls in WP7 system and apps are editable.

I wouldn't suggest editing files. I am sure they are signed with a MS cert. Editing the files will loose said cert & make the system not want to load them. So was the case in WM 6/6.1/6.5/etc. You had to unsign dll/edit/resign dll with sdkcerts.

drkfngthdragnlrd said:
I wouldn't suggest editing files. I am sure they are signed with a MS cert. Editing the files will loose said cert & make the system not want to load them. So was the case in WM 6/6.1/6.5/etc. You had to unsign dll/edit/resign dll with sdkcerts.
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Thanks for suggesting that cause i was ready to edit some interesting stuff here!

If you have PE Explorer, open the exe/dll in it to see if it's signed.
The icon squared in red should be grayed out like show if there's NO signature. If there is one, it's be colored & selectable. If it's Grayed out it should be safe to edit.
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Thanks mate!

[tool]Win8 BTD 1.0.0.0 - Boot directly into classic desktop

Win8 BTD - (B)oot(T)o(D)esktop is a small tool which helps you to boot directly into classic desktop. ("Bypass" ModernUI Homescreen at startup)
Hello my name is Raffi and this is the first the first app I've posted at xda dev. So please be patient with me if I did something wrong. The program is written in C# and uses the .NET Framework 4.5. The application consists only of one .exe-file which does not add any files to the filesystem. So you can call it a portable app.
How to use it?
Start the Win8BTD.exe as administrator. Click on the desktop or on the modernui image to choose which "screen" you like to see after a boot.
Latest version
Win8 BTD 1.0.0.0
Old versions
n/a
Updates
The tool includes a minimal update check. So it tells you if it's time to look for a new version.
Tested on
Windows 8 Pro x64
If you own another version of Win8 and tested the tool with success on your system, let me know it.
Download-Link
Download: Win8 BTD 1.0.0.0
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How does it work?
Technical information
Greets,
Raffi

Can you please post it in a .reg or .bat format?
I think most of us would like to know what a program is doing before we run it.

So this is how it works
Article on my blog (english by google translator)
Article on my blog (german, original article)
In a nutshell
Change "Computer\HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon" key-value-pair in registry from explorer.exe to explorer.exe /select,explorer.exe
@victorator:
Is this ok for you or do you need still more information? Otherwise you could also decompile my tool, because I havn't used any kind of obfuscator.

It works very well and much easier...thanks..:thumbup::thumbup::thumbup::thumbup:

Cool, thanks for providing the app and the info (and yeah, people usually like to check these things; my usual approach is to just include the source but you can do whatever you want).

[APP][2.1+]File Tools v3.0 [20/1/2013]

This is my own application.So Try it and Rate it.
File Tools
Version:3.0
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File Tools is a collection for Tools to preform some useful actions on files.
Now it contains File Renamer,File Finder and Duplicate Finder.In future,i will add more tools based on your suggestions.
File Tools Features:
1.Collections of Useful Tools
2.Completely Ad-Free
3.Easy to Navigate
File Renamer:
Do you want to rename 1000 files or more than of that.Then really you need this tool.You can rename 1000 files by adding Date,Number,Custom Text etc at your desire position easily by this tool.
Features:
1.Custom Text
2.Numbering
3.Date
4.Find & Replace
5.Remove Char
File Finder:
Don't know where your files are placed or saved on your Memory Card and want to Search for your desire file easily.Then use this tool.You can easily locate your desire file by choosing a Filters like File Extensions,File Size etc..
Features:
1.Match Case.
2.Search on desire folders.
3.Filtering
Size limit.
Extension.
Duplicate Finder:
Do you have more files in your Memory Card and also having lot of Duplicate files(Same files found in different folders).Then you can easily search for it and able to delete it.By using this tool you can save more memory.
Features:
1.Byte by Byte Search.
2.Easy to delete.
3.Faster search.
Report at:[email protected]
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Download:
Market link Inside:http://www.cybapps.com/view.php?id=8
(Don't forgot to click some ads)

Native App WCE6.0... Starts on wp7

Mortscript
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Why not? Whenever app doesn't use HWND APIs, it will run. If it does, it just won't show HWND.
Absent functions is still a problem for some (if not most) of apps.

Please more information
About how to use and benefit from the advantages

AhmedElsharkawy said:
Please more information
About how to use and benefit from the advantages
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There is explorer.exe (started usually by HKLM/Init/Launch50, it is replaced by simply TellShell.exe TaskBar started by HKLM/Init/Launch40) and some shell missing on WP7 relative to full WEC7, especially screen UI functions and parameters. There are possibilities to include missing APIs by using Platform Builder sources, but it is too much work for deprecated system, because all necessary changes will related to big amout of dependent places. The same answer is to USB Host/OTG/HID support etc. All is possible, but too few experienced native coders is available. May be simple debugging API using application can start most of WCE/WEC applications with simplified UI. There is security hole posssible due to different data and shared code segments between kernel and user mode (callbacks are valid with marshalled parameters), which offers to us all processes memory and code controlling access too. The most simpliest way is to add visual page creating and registering to original WM/WCE/WEC source code, which cause application main window visibility, but it could not solve problem of any missing needed API functions and parameters (scrollbars, start menu, low level support etc.).