How to launch settings app with no start menu link ?

UnstoppableDrew · #1 (**permalink**) 10-13-2008, 02:17 PM

This weekend my phone latched up, wouldn't complete the boot sequence. I wound up hard resetting it back to my custom kitchen that has been running just fine for months (it's been so long since I messed with it I don't remember which one it's based on).

Did a sync to recover my contacts & data, but many settings were wrong so I started redoing them. Apparently I have completely buggered something up, because now when I hit start, there's only a couple items on the start menu, and no link for 'Settings'. When I navigate to Windows\Start Menu the Settings folder is empty.

How can I launch the settings app so I can reconfigure the Today screen ?

Thanks!

**PDAPhoneJunkie** · #2 (**permalink**) 10-13-2008, 02:44 PM

That folder is always empty when you access it via file explore. However you could try this program I extracted out of WisBar Advanced. Just extract it out of this zip then drag it to device then launch in File Explore.

UnstoppableDrew · #3 (**permalink**) 10-14-2008, 07:09 AM

Thanks! That at least lets me get back to the settings. I still don't understand how the start menu got so screwed up, but at least I can work around it for now.

**weedahoe** · #4 (**permalink**) 10-14-2008, 08:06 AM

Why not hard reset again and the resync?

**PDAPhoneJunkie** · #5 (**permalink**) 10-14-2008, 05:51 PM

Yeah. But if you don't want to hardreset then just put that file in \Windows\Start Menu, but make sure you only have 6 shourtcuts there.