Monday, February 26, 2007
How to Change Your Device Image in the Windows Mobile Device Center
Posted by Darius Wey in "ARTICLE" @ 08:00 AM
"In Windows Vista, there is a new software called Windows Mobile Device Center (WMDC), which replaces ActiveSync to synchronize your files and information to your handheld (Example 1). On the WMDC is a large photo of a device. By default Microsoft included some illustrated generic images for either Smartphone or Pocket PC (Example 2) (which is a nice looking graphic, don't get me wrong). This is well and good, but us that want to customize this are left in the dark as to how to change the image. I watched a few of the online videos demonstrating the WMDC and in one of them it was mentioned that OEMs (the people who release the devices) are capable of switching the graphic to a "custom" graphic. I immediately searched the web trying to find information on how to change the graphic. Nothing was found, just the fact the "OEMs can change the graphic". So next I searched the PC for any indication of the image, both in the registry and the file system and determined that an icon was created in the profile directory..."
Michael at PDAPhoneHome.com has written a detailed walkthrough for modifying the generic device image in the Windows Mobile Device Center to something a little more snazzy. If this interests you, head over to PDAPhoneHome.com and check out the article.
Michael at PDAPhoneHome.com has written a detailed walkthrough for modifying the generic device image in the Windows Mobile Device Center to something a little more snazzy. If this interests you, head over to PDAPhoneHome.com and check out the article.
