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- 18 May 2004 00:44 GMT

I have a HP Jornada 547. It has the Windows CE 3.0. Can
I change the themes on the Today screen?

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AlanS - 18 May 2004 01:57 GMT

> I have a HP Jornada 547. It has the Windows CE 3.0. Can
> I change the themes on the Today screen?

Look on microsofts site - Power Tools includes a theme generator.

http://www.microsoft.com/windowsmobile/resources/downloads/default.mspx

and

http://www.ida.net/users/oe1k/programs/ThemeBuilder/

http://www.pocketpcthemes.com/

and over 80,000 themes here:
http://www.pocketthemes.com/

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Carlo Ma. Guerrero [MVP] - 18 May 2004 07:10 GMT

If you have a Jornada 547, you are running the original Pocket PC software
which doesn't natively support Today Themes... you can edit the tdybnr.gif
and tdydate.gif files though by overwriting the ones in ROM... Don't
worry... as they are not overwritten permanently... deleting them will
reveal the original files once again. But this has to be done via the
desktop PC's File Explorer.

If you want to use Pocket PC 2002 themes on your 547, you will have to use
Novosec's Pocket Facelift which can be downloaded form their site...
http://www.pocketfacelift.com/

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> I have a HP Jornada 547. It has the Windows CE 3.0. Can
> I change the themes on the Today screen?

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AlanS - 18 May 2004 11:23 GMT

Just out of interest- Does this only apply to the Jornado 547, or is it all
of the early OS machines?

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> If you have a Jornada 547, you are running the original Pocket PC software
> which doesn't natively support Today Themes... you can edit the tdybnr.gif
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> > I have a HP Jornada 547. It has the Windows CE 3.0. Can
> > I change the themes on the Today screen?

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Carlo Ma. Guerrero [MVP] - 18 May 2004 12:53 GMT

Which one???

The over writing of the 2 GIF files in the Windows Folder called tdybnr.gif
and tdydate.gif are Pocket PC 2000 specific files... this will work for the
original iPAQ 36xx, Jornada 52x, 54x, Cassiopeia E-125, EM-500 etc...

The Pocket Facelift works for PPC 2000 and PPC2002 devices... WHile you may
not need the skinning utility for PPC2002, the other features of Pocket
Facelift such as the skinnable top and bottom bars (Task bar) and the
cascading menu and some other things, are quite useful additions for the
Pocket PC 2002 devices.

It is not fully compatible though to the WM2003 devices

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> Just out of interest- Does this only apply to the Jornado 547, or is it all
> of the early OS machines?
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> > > I have a HP Jornada 547. It has the Windows CE 3.0. Can
> > > I change the themes on the Today screen?

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