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Change the device icon in Windows Mobile Device Center
Windows Mobile Device Center is vista's version of ActiveSync, for synchronizing data between your PC and Windows Mobile PDA or smartphone. When it loads, you get a nice little graphic of a generic PDA and smartphone. But what if you want a picture that looks like the Pocket PC you've got docked in a cradle on your desk?Michael Railing at PDAPhoneHome figured out where Windows stores the icon file, and how to change it out. It's a little tricky, because it's not enough to create a new icon file and store it in the right directory (C:\users\(your username)\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\ActiveSync\Profiles\(your profile key)\).
You also need to store a copy of the icon in the Windows directory on your mobile device before making your first connection to Windows Mobile Device Center. So you may have to remove and re-add your device in order for this to work. Railing's also been kind enough to create a ton of icons for various devices for your downloading pleasure.
[via Pocket PC Thoughts]
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Subscribe to commentsasurrocaMar 1st 2007 10:33AM
Sweet, worked like a charm. A note to Microsoft, though, it would be great if they added icons for all Windows Mobile devices to WMDC and had it choose the icon automatically based on your Windows Mobile device. I think half of those icons came from microsoft.com anyway!