Changing Home Screen on a Microsoft Windows Mobile Smart Phone

Smartphones November 10th, 2004

Editing the homescreen on a Microsoft smart phone simply involves copying one of the standard Windows homescreen files (*.home.xml found in \Windows), editing it and changing the title tag to something like “Tony’s Home Screen”, and saving it as a new file in \Storage\Application Data\Home. The file has to be named something like this : tonys.home.xml (ending in .home.xml).

File Manager

Once you’ve dropped the new file onto the phone simply click Start, 9, 1, 4 (Home Screen) and select the Home Screen Layout you defined in the title tag.

Choose a Home screen

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2 Responses to “Changing Home Screen on a Microsoft Windows Mobile Smart Phone”

Claude Says:
June 12th, 2005 at 4:24 pm
Hello. I’ve been trying to change the home page URL’s on my SMT5600. Could you go through your procedure in detail? Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks in advance,
-Claude
James Says:
July 25th, 2007 at 1:33 pm
I’ve been able to change or add Home Screens in the past but sometimes when i copy it onto the device it doesn’t show up in the list in Settings, even though it is in the folder. Any ideas why?