HOWTO: Cheezy Registry hacks

[yrone]

I thought that I would try and contribute something back to the axim community because of all the help I have had here (directly and indirectly (search function))
Here is my cheezy registry hack howto. I thought that it was pretty cool I found this stuff out on my own.
I learned this on my own on the way home from work while my wife drove (we have a long drive)
I downloaded a freeware program called PHM Registry Editory from http://www.phm.lu/products/ and started looking through al the keys. Heres what I found.

HKCU/software/microsoft/shell/
There are 2 values
AnalogClock - set to 0 for off 1 for on (looks like a regular clock with hands)
and
ClearType - set to 0 for off and 1 for on (makes fonts look a TON better. I wonder why its not enabled by default)

HKLM/software/microsoft/clock
there should be 4 keys 0 - 3 and you can make more like this:
Go to Edit
Create a New Key
Then go into one of the current keys above your new key and copy each value and paste it into your new key.
You will have a clone of one of the alarms then when you do a soft reset you should see your new alarm and can change it from there.

HKLM/software/microsoft/shell/start items
I "think" you can put more items in here. Im sure you can think of some more stuff that you would like to have in your start menu. I havent tried this yet so ....

HKLM/software/microsoft/today/items
This contains keys with "calendar", "inbox", (the stuff that shows up on your desktop)
There are values for enable and disable. But I wonder if it is possible to add more stuff to the desktop by doing the copy and paste trick. I havent tried yet.

Anybody else got anything. Has anyones axim caught on fire by setting cleartype fonts on? Does it drain the battery?

[ARM Hacker]

As far as the AnalogClock and Cleartype stuff, those are just settings in various menus. i.e. click on the clock to make in analog. I think the other ones are under menus as well, easier then messing with the registry.

[yrone]

Originally posted by ARM Hacker
As far as the AnalogClock and Cleartype stuff, those are just settings in various menus. i.e. click on the clock to make in analog. I think the other ones are under menus as well, easier then messing with the registry.

maybe the analog, but I cant find the cleartype anywhere and I thought that the adding alarms part was pretty cool :D

[Mike C]

Cleartype is a normal selection by GUI, but many complained about the appearance ... me included.