Icons at top of home screen - Motorola Q Forum

jherm · 01-12-2007, 03:21 PM

I want to get rid of some of the shortcut icons that are appearing at the top of my homescreen. even when i kill the process in task manager the shortcut still appears and i want to get rid of it. how can i do that?

scottjb · 01-12-2007, 05:46 PM

It sounds like you're referring to the MRU (most recently used) plug-in. You would have to remove it from your home screen xml to get it off of the home screen.

Pony99CA · 01-12-2007, 09:02 PM

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Originally Posted by jherm

I want to get rid of some of the shortcut icons that are appearing at the top of my homescreen. even when i kill the process in task manager the shortcut still appears and i want to get rid of it. how can i do that?

I think Scott is correct. The MRU list just shows you the programs that you've run most recently, which provides a shortcut to opening them again (instead of going into the Start menu).

Why do you want to get rid of some of them? As you run other programs, the ones used longest ago will eventually disappear. So if you really want to get rid of some of the icons, run several other programs.

In the Pocket PC (at least before WM 5), I knew a registry hack to reset the MRU list, but I couldn't find a similar place on the Q. (HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Shell\StartMRU has an InitialOrder value, but I think that only applies after a Master Reset. I assume that you don't want to do that.

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Steve

larsdennert · 01-13-2007, 12:37 AM

Maybe he wants to remove the voicemail and missed call indicators etc. Editing the XML would do that too.

tilley · 01-13-2007, 08:57 PM

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Originally Posted by larsdennert

Maybe he wants to remove the voicemail and missed call indicators etc. Editing the XML would do that too.

- where this xml file is? With what tool/app you use to edit that? thanks.

scottjb · 01-13-2007, 09:23 PM

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Originally Posted by tilley

- where this xml file is? With what tool/app you use to edit that? thanks.

The xml home screen files are located in \Application Data\Home. I edit them right on the mobile using Orneta Notepad, or copy them to my PC via ActiveSync, then use a text editor.

jherm · 01-13-2007, 10:25 PM

if you turn the phone off and then turn it back on, does the MRU list start over? would there be fewer programs there?

Pony99CA · 01-14-2007, 02:10 AM

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Originally Posted by jherm

if you turn the phone off and then turn it back on, does the MRU list start over? would there be fewer programs there?

Come on, you could turn your phone off and find out yourself.

However, the list shouldn't clear.

Why are you trying to do this? Are you trying to get rid of some specific program?

Steve

gmardre · 01-30-2007, 10:38 AM

NO, he is prob like me, I installed some programs to try, uninstalled them, and now we have these shortcuts up there that do not lead to anything.

How to get them removed? Who knows?

qwho · 01-30-2007, 12:23 PM

try opening other applications until the old apps are no longer on the list? I don't understand the problem you are having... did you know that the list is finite, and that when you open more applications it pushes the old outs out?