make your own shortcuts to control panel
 

ok. im not good at giving directions but here is an easy way to make a shortcut to anything in start/settings(control panel applets). for example if you are sick of pressing start/settings/system/power to view battery info simply open up a semi advanced text editor(notepad on pc or I use cedit on ppc) and type in 20#ctlpnl cplmain.cpl,3 and save as a text object and save as like battery.lnk what it will do when pressed is take you to start/settings/sytem/power. or if u want to make a shortcut to take you right to bluetooth simply open the text editor and type in 21#ctlpnl cplmain.cpl,23 and save as a text object and save as bluetooth.lnk. viola. start/settings/connections/bluetooth/mode. very easy. even a noob can do this. here is a list of control panel applets I haverounded up. also I have included a zip with a few examples. hope some may find this useful.



Settings>Personal>Password>Password = 20#ctlpnl cplmain.cpl,1.

Settings>Personal>Password>Hint = 22#ctlpnl cplmain.cpl,1,1

Settings>Personal>Owner Information>Identification = 20#ctlpnl cplmain.cpl,2

Settings>Personal>Owner Information>Notes = 22#ctlpnl cplmain.cpl,2,1

Settings>Personal>Owner Information>Options = 22#ctlpnl cplmain.cpl,2,2

Settings>System>Power>Main = 20#ctlpnl cplmain.cpl,3

Settings>System>Memory>Main = 20#ctlpnl cplmain.cpl,4

Settings>System>Memory>Storage Card = 22#ctlpnl cplmain.cpl,4,1

Settings>System>Memory>Running Programs = 22#ctlpnl cplmain.cpl,4,2

Settings>System>About>Version = 20#ctlpnl cplmain.cpl,5

Settings>System>About>Device ID = 22#ctlpnl cplmain.cpl,5,1

Settings>System>About>Copyrights = 22#ctlpnl cplmain.cpl,5,2

Settings>System>Screen>General = 20#ctlpnl cplmain.cpl,7

Settings>System>Screen>Clear Type = 22#ctlpnl cplmain.cpl,7,1

Settings>System>Screen>Text Size = 22#ctlpnl cplmain.cpl,7,2

Settings>Personal>Input>Input Method = 20#ctlpnl cplmain.cpl,8

Settings>Personal>Input>Word Completion = 22#ctlpnl cplmain.cpl,8,1

Settings>Personal>Input>Options = 22#ctlpnl cplmain.cpl,8,2

Settings>Personal>Sounds & Notifications>Sounds = 20#ctlpnl cplmain.cpl,9

Settings>Personal>Sounds & Notifications>Notifications = 22#ctlpnl cplmain.cpl,9,1

Settings>System>Remove Programs = 21#ctlpnl cplmain.cpl,10

Settings>Personal>Menus>Start Menu = 21#ctlpnl cplmain.cpl,11

Settings>Personal>Menus>New Menu = 23#ctlpnl cplmain.cpl,11,1

Settings>Personal>Buttons>Program Buttons = 21#ctlpnl cplmain.cpl,12

Settings>Personal>Buttons>Up/Down Controls = 23#ctlpnl cplmain.cpl,12,1

Settings>Personal>Today>Appearance = 21#ctlpnl cplmain.cpl,13

Settings>Personal>Today>Items = 23#ctlpnl cplmain.cpl,13,1

Settings>Connections>Beam = 21#ctlpnl cplmain.cpl,15

Settings>System>Clock & Alarms>Time = 21#ctlpnl cplmain.cpl,16

Settings>System>Clock & Alarms>Alarms = 23#ctlpnl cplmain.cpl,16,2

Settings>Connections>Network Cards = 21#ctlpnl cplmain.cpl,17

Settings>System>Regional Settings>Region = 21#ctlpnl cplmain.cpl,18

Settings>System>Regional Settings>Number = 23#ctlpnl cplmain.cpl,18,1

Settings>System>Regional Settings>Currency = 23#ctlpnl cplmain.cpl,18,2

Settings>System>Regional Settings>Time = 23#ctlpnl cplmain.cpl,18,3

Settings>System>Regional Settings>Date = 23#ctlpnl cplmain.cpl,18,4

Settings>Connections>Connections>Task = 21#ctlpnl cplmain.cpl,19

Settings>Connections>Connection>Advanced = 23#ctlpnl cplmain.cpl,19,1

Settings>Personal>Phone>Phone = 21#ctlpnl cplmain.cpl,20

Settings>Personal>Phone>Services = 23#ctlpnl cplmain.cpl,20,1

Settings>Personal>Phone>Network = 23#ctlpnl cplmain.cpl,20,2

Settings>Personal>Phone>More = 23#ctlpnl cplmain.cpl,20,3

Settings>System>Certificates>Personal = 21#ctlpnl cplmain.cpl,22

Settings>System>Certificates>Root = 23#ctlpnl cplmain.cpl,22,1

Settings>Connections>Bluetooth>Mode = 21#ctlpnl cplmain.cpl,23

Settings>Connections>Bluetooth>Devices = 23#ctlpnl cplmain.cpl,23,1

oh yah
 

beauty is that they can be assigned to a hard button.
dien

looks interesting, thanks :)

thanks alot, i hate going through the start menu to get to my bluetooth settings

Damn Dien...I can see you've been putting your time in the basement to good use.

late,
Coz

yo
 

speaking of my basement alan, where have u been? we haven't played chutes and ladders in a while. you did call double or nothing. hahah

dien

:sign5:
Sorry that you have to find out about this in a public forum...but I've been playing chutes and ladders with someone else.

But we can still be friends!

late,
Coz

This is awesome!!! Using it right now...

yo dien how in the world did you find out about this? couldnt have been by accident. this is groundbreaking stuff here. thanks for sharing!

This is a noob question, but how do you do the same for programs that you want to launch from your storage card that don't already have a shortcut in your Start Menu?