We all have faced annoying issues with the default SoftKey buttons that are pre-mapped in stock roms. And when its possible to personalize them aswell then why have a button that is wasting the space with no use.
So this time i’ll explain how to remap the softkey buttons to whatever application or file you like. You can use some applications but why to have different application do half the work and that to not for all three main today screens.
The three most common and most popular today screes – Empty with no plugin, Manila and the new WM6.5.x Titanium Screens. For other devices there are many other today plugins that use the default empty today screen buttons only.
The application you can use to achieve this are PHM RegEdit to edit from your Windows Device and CeRegEditor to edit from your PC. And the chefs can even add these to there kitchen to add them in their roms.
Empty Today Screen:
Looks something like this-
Here are the registry entries you need to edit.
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Today\Keys\112]
@=”Notes“
“Open”=”\\Windows\\Start Menu\\Notes.lnk“
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Today\Keys\113]
@=”Tasks“
“Open”=”\\Windows\\Start Menu\\Tasks.lnk“
Key 112 is for the Left SoftKey and 113 is for the Right.
@ - Is the name you want to appear on the Button
“Open” – Is any location to either a main exe file or the lnk file or to even a picture if you want.
Titanium:
Looks something like this-
Here are the registry entries you need to edit.
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\CHome\cclock]
“SK1TEXT”=”Contacts“
“SK1URL”=”:MSCONTACTS“
“SK2TEXT”=”Action“
“SK2URL”=”\\Windows\\Start Menu\\Programs\\Utility\\Contacts.lnk“
SK1TEXT – Is the name of the key you want to keep
SK1URL – Is the location of the application that you want to install on that key.
SK1 represents left SoftKey and SK2 represents Right SoftKey
Manila:
Looks something like this-
Here are the registry entries you need to edit.
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\HTC\Manila]
“HomeLSKText”=”Contacts“
“HomeLSKPath”=”\\Windows\\Start Menu\\Programs\\Utility\\Contacts.lnk“
“HomeRSKText”=”ShortCuts“
“HomeRSKPath”=”\\windows\\HTCActionScreen.exe“
Do the same with these as well. Here LSK means Left SoftKey and RSK means Right SoftKey.
