Start Menu - 4/5 Items Wide

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Update 27/11/2009:
I have now made a multi-device version here. It adds landscape support and the text is slightly larger to accommodate devices with smaller screens which I think looks better on the hd2 too.

Old version:
Hi All,

I wasnt very impressed with other 4-wide and 5-wide options, so I just modified the .cpr from my hd2 myself.

This doesnt touch the registry, so wont be much use for non-stock ROMs and other devices unless you edit it yourself:
HKLM\Security\Shell\StartMenu\CustomGridForm = "StartMenuCust"

You will need to soft reset after installing.

Enjoy!

Could you please post some screenshots?

No problem, screenshots added to post 1.

My CustomGridForm is already =StartMenuCust. Should your cabs work on my case (original rom)?

Other question: Did you get your start menu to work on landscape? I've seen some threads about this but I would like to know where to change this on the reg myself. Some apps might have unstable behavior when adding apps to the white list.

Thanks!

If you are already StartMenuCust it should work - I think its only when custom roms start coming out that will change.

I should have mentioned - This is just for portrait. You could change the landscape yourself as it is fairly trivial. Look in \Windows for:
StartMenuCust_480x800.cpr = Portrait
StartMenuCust_800x480.cpr = Landscape

Edit these in notepad (it is just xml). You have to change the row count to 4 and change the relative size of the images, text etc.

Just tried this out .... very effective thanks!!

just a little point, after the install, the black screen offers a Restart button or cancel; on my stock HD2 neither worked, it had frozen. A soft reset got it going again, with a 5-column display

any chance of gettin them in a straght line instead of honeycomb?>

Editing seems to be simple enough. The problem is that my start menu doesn't rotate automatically. I could use gyrator to make it work but I would prefer to use the whitelist or any other reg edit. I avoid using programs that have to be running in the background or tweak my Leo for me, as much as possible. If I reg edit and it doesn't work, I know what I did and can always change it back.
Any idea on how to do this?

Thanks!

pdgpereira:
This thread seems to cover the reg changes you need to make. I havent tried it though!

vinokirk:
Not a clue, sorry!

Armes:
I dont know why it crashed for you. It asks you to restart itself (presumably because it changed a system file) so its installers fault!

Thanks for the link. I had been there but with no previous success. I finally did it. I isolated the reg tweaks made by gsen cab, I think, and added some others. A soup of reg tweaks... The problem with cabs is that you never know what exactly they do. I'll be doing some reg cleaning in the next hour.

Now I will try out these 4/5 columns in landscape.

Thanks guys!