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Google Maps with My Location is amazing, but it has one bug…Whether you tell it to install to the internal memory or to the storage card, it always installs to the internal memory. Even though I’ve overclocked my T-mobile wing and changed its pagepool size, it’s still so slow that sometimes it doesn’t even let me answer calls, which is really frustrating. It’s important to have as much internal free memory as possible – even though its internal RAM and internal storage are separate, it still seems to run faster with more internal storage free.

The windows file explorer and start menu interface is cripplingly stupid — the Start Menu is controlled by the menus setting but has all sorts of arbitrary limits such as some items that you can’t delete (such as T-zones) and an 8-item custom program limit. The file explorer is even worse, hiding file extensions, files and whole directories from you, with no ‘advanced view’ setting that I’m aware of. For instance, the programs in the programs folder and the shortcuts in the start menu are stored in \windows\start menu\programs and \windows\start menu\ respectively, but you are not allowed to access those directories from the file explorer.

When I moved google maps from the internal storage to the storage card (edit>cut and edit>paste in file explorer), the shortcut remained in the start menu. Even worse, in the settings menu, when I would uncheck the old shortcut, Windows would give me the error “this shortcut cannot be removed” and check the box again for me. Thanks.

Luckily a solution is available – get Total Commander for Pocket PC. This is an enhanced file explorer that actually shows you file extensions and all directories. You can also get the cab from this useful page, though never install Silent Boot from that page onto your wing.

Anyway, to create a shortcut, use the regular file explorer, click and hold on the exe and choose copy, and then choose “paste as shortcut” somewhere arbitrary. Then, open up total commander and move that shortcut.lnk file that you created into the \windows\start menu\programs directory. You can also put it in \windows\start menu\. Voila, it will show up in your start menu and programs folder.

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