# What's the shortcut to the settings on a WM device?

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**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [September 29, 2007, 1:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-shortcut-to-the-settings-on-a-wm-device/420885 "2007-09-29T01:29:26Z")\
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**Author:** ![bouv](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bc8723/32.png) [@bouv](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bouv)\
**Post date:** [September 29, 2007, 1:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-shortcut-to-the-settings-on-a-wm-device/420885/1 "2007-09-29T01:29:26Z")

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Long story short, I installed a new shell for my windows mobile phone, but I can’t get the shortcut to the “settings” section to work. If I go into the file explorer through ActiveSync, I can see a folder called \Windows\Start Menu\Settings, but there is nothing in there…even though clicking on that shortcut in the start menu does bring me to the settings. I tried just making the “settings” icon in my new shell point to that same folder, but it doesn’t do anything.

This is the last hurdle I need to jump through to get the shell working properly. I can use it without this, as I can go the long way around and open a different program from the shell, then access the start menu and go to settings that way, but that’s a little too involved for me.

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**Author:** ![lizardling](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/f4b2a3/32.png) [@lizardling](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lizardling)\
**Post date:** [September 29, 2007, 3:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-shortcut-to-the-settings-on-a-wm-device/420885/2 "2007-09-29T03:09:05Z")

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[QUOTE=bouv]  
Long story short, I installed a new shell for my windows mobile phone, but I can’t get the shortcut to the “settings” section to work. If I go into the file explorer through ActiveSync, I can see a folder called \Windows\Start Menu\Settings, but there is nothing in there…even though clicking on that shortcut in the start menu does bring me to the settings. I tried just making the “settings” icon in my new shell point to that same folder, but it doesn’t do anything.

This is the last hurdle I need to jump through to get the shell working properly. I can use it without this, as I can go the long way around and open a different program from the shell, then access the start menu and go to settings that way, but that’s a little too involved for me.  
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Can you be more exact? What Windows Mobile flavor, and what shell were you trying to set up? Might also be useful to know which phone.