Organising Your Menus
QStart
Let's start with Qstart - this is a nice easy way to set up menu structure that is very similar to the Palm OS layout.
Press Button 4 on the right -- similar to the Home icon on the Palm but has a small Shortcut-like arrow printed on it.
This is easy to organise into pages and is well designed so that anyone can set it up any way they want. When you press button 4, you will typically see a screen like this.
You will notice at the bottom of the screen that there is a Tools menu and beside it is a drop down list of available pages or categories. Choose the Category that you wish to work with.
Click on Tools | Add Application... And then choose the program name from the upper list. Check that you are still in the desired category in the lower list then click Ok. This will add a new shortcut to that Category. Nice and simple, eh?
Note that with all these methods, you are not actually copying or moving around the applications themselves. As with Windows 98 etc, you are simply working with shortcuts to the actual programs.
Using Explorer
The same basic steps can also be achieved using the plain old File Explorer, working on the various menus at your disposal. You can do this with the File Explorer on your device, that is available under button 3, the QUtilities button.
Or you can do this using a version of the regular Windows Explorer, by clicking on the Explore button in the ActiveSync window on your desktop.
Launch the File Explorer now and have a little "explore". When using File Explorer on your device, there is a small quirk which is not immediately obvious. When you first bring it up, you will be in the \My Documents folder...but how do move up the folder tree? Click on the My Documents folder name (with small arrow) at the top of the list.
This will drop down a list of folders above this one, including My Device, which is the root folder.
Navigate your way to \My Device\Compaq Menu -- this will simply display as \Compaq Menu if you use Windows Explorer through the ActiveSync window. You will see when you look around here that this the structure of the QStart menu system that we were just working with. Changes that you make to this set of folders and shortcuts will show up in the layout of Qstart.
Start Menu
This same principle applies to the other menu areas that we are going to work with. To change the menus that lie beneath the Start icon itself (up in the top left corner of your device screen), navigate your (File) Explorer over to the \Windows\Start Menu folder. Again, you will find that the Start Menu structure is based on the folders and shortcuts contained. You can move shortcuts around, rename folders and generally reorganise things here.
Do not rename the main Start Menu folder - you'll just confuse the poor little beast!
Tap & Hold
So how do you actually copy or move a shortcut to a program? This is where Tap & Hold comes in. If you simply tap on a program icon or shortcut link, this will obviously launch that program. However if you do not release the stylus after landing on the icon but instead continue to press lightly, a context-sensitive menu will pop up.
In this case, tap & hold on the shortcut icon. Select Copy on the pop-up menu. Now navigate your File Explorer to the desired folder eg. \Windows\Start Menu and then click on Edit | Paste - this will create a new copy of the shortcut to your program.
Creating a New Shortcut
This unfortunately is just a wee bit more tricky. It can be done in one of two ways. If you use the desktop Windows Explorer, via the ActiveSync window, you can create a shortcut at the Paste stage of the above operation - when you click on Edit, you will have the choice of Paste or Paste Shortcut. You don't need two copies of the actual program file kicking around on your device so just Paste Shortcut.
File Explorer on your device does not give you this option so you have to cheat a bit if you want to do this all from your device. First use QStart, as described at the start of this page. When you select Add Application, QStart creates a new shortcut for you in the \Compaq Menu folder. You can then use File Explorer to move or copy this shortcut to whatever folder you like.
If you are not sure whether the file you are pointing at is a shortcut or the actual program, look at the file size - shortcuts are usually less than 40 bytes in size (tiny) whereas programs are usually at least 40k in size.