Start Menu in Windows Mobile 6.5

Reason

Luafie has some questions about how to add shortcuts to the Start menu when packaging Windows Mobile. I will summarize my experience.

 

Historical Development

I have always considered Windows Mobile's Start Menu a wrong design. I have discussed my views on menus before. For details, refer to Mircosoft's formal change of Windows Mobile to Windows Phone. Will you purchase Windows Phone?

 

The Start Menu is a magic weapon for Windows, such.

But it is a historical burden of Windows Mobile. It is the Start Menu of Windows Mobile 5.

The Start Menu of Windows Mobile 6.1 is as follows.

Although Windows Mobile 5 and Windows Mobile 6.1 have different screen sizes, their start menus are the same and only seven menu items can be displayed, the new menu item cannot be displayed in the Start Menu, unless you delete the original menu item.

 

Windows Mobile 6.5's Start Menu is no longer a traditional Windows Start Menu. It is a touch screen selection box, a bit like an iPhone lattice, but a honeycomb, such:

Compared with the original design, the Start Menu Design of Windows Mobile 6.5 is theoretically able to support unlimited menu items and is no longer limited by seven menu items. It is more like a mobile device than a desktop system.

 

How to display menu items

Menu items are actually shortcuts. In Windows Mobile 6.5, there are many menu items, so there are many shortcuts under the \ windows \ Start Menu directory. For example:

 

However, in the system before 6.5, we can see that there are only seven shortcuts under the directory of \ windows \ Start Menu. These are the seven menu items displayed in the Start Menu. For example:

 

If a new menu item needs to be displayed in the system before 6.5, You need to delete the original shortcut and add a new shortcut. This process can be completed by compiling the DLL. In the deploy project, specify the DLL to delete and add shortcuts.