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Key Remapping
My phone is a T-mobile branded system
but I don't use T-mobile as a carrier so having one of the special keys jump to
the T-Mobile web site
isn't really all that useful.
On this device, I have a row of four special keys where the left is T-mobile and
the other three are used by Windows Media player. I assumed that this must be configured via the
registry so spent quite a while searching for which key before figuring out it was file system controlled. In the \Windows directory you'll
find a link file called "Short_AP1.lnk". Edit this file to contain as a
link "34#\Windows\iexplore.exe http://<YourChoiceOfPages> and save it. For
file system work like this, I like Total Commander:
http://www.ghisler.com/smartphone.htm.
One of the problem with Pocket IE is that it takes forever to scroll down through long pages. Here's a neat trick to implement paging that Ray Ozzie provided. The following defines the they keypad keys to scroll.
Just go to " \HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\KeyMaps" add the following five dword values:
For registry editor, I recommend PHM Registry Editor. If you can't install it, see the unlocking section. Last updated 2007.03.26 |
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