1) To change the location that the camera saves stuff- first in the camera go into settings and pick card or device. Then in the registry go to HKCU-software-samsung-camera and you can change the picture and video directories for either the device path, card path, or both.
2) You could fiddle further in the registry to change image viewer opens by default (FYI- these registry values seem to be looked or hidden or something- memmaid reg editor wont see the keys- resco explorer’s reg add in does though if you want to go this route):
Go to HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Shell\Rai\:MSPIMG\1
add your default directory by appending if after pimg.exe with the folling syntax
so make
pimg.exe
in to
\Windows\pimg.exe -directory: "\Storage Card\foo\foo2".
The picture and video shortcut from the start menu points to the MSPIMG value so by adding the directory to the value it will always pull open the SINGLE directory you put there.
3) another option which I think is even better then 2 above is to just create your own shortcuts on the start menu- so you can make one that opens your picture directory and one that opens your video directory – basically the start menu contains links = “lnk” files. Seems they are just plain text with the program, path (if needed), icon (if needed) and then prepended by the number of number of characters in the text part.
So for example:
80#\Windows\pimg.exe -directory: \Storage Card\Foo\My Videos?\Windows\videos.dll,-0
Means
open the program \windows\pimg.exe and point it at the
directory \storage card\foo\my videos and they the
? means use the icon found in the videos.dll -
80 is the number of characters following the #.
Plus you can name it anything you want- just give it the .lnk file type
So I could put the example text in a file called foo video.lnk and then on the start menu there would be an item called “foo video” that opens the foo video location.
The background info is found here
HOW TO: make 'Pictures and Videos' open in a folder of your choice - WinMo @ MoDaCo
and
HOWTO: make 'All Photos' start the photo viewer in your storage card. - WinMo @ MoDaCo
and
Secret Tips, Tricks and Other stuff for Windows Mobile users: Understanding Shortcuts on Windows Mobile
one of the guys at modaco was kind enough to make up the videos.dll to hold a movie real icon so you can create a shortcut for videos that opens your video directory and has an icon of a movie real.
Zip file (glomed from the modaco threads) attached has:
- an example shortcut for pictures and
- and example shortcut for video
- the video dll file for the movie real icon
Edit the 2 shortcuts on your pc in a text editor to whatever you want. Remember to fix the number value at the front to fit whatever the length of your “phase” is following the #. Then put them in the windows- start menu-programs directory on your device. Put the videos.dll in your devices windows directory to get that icon to show up if you wanted a video link.
I haven’t found anyway (YET) to change the default “open picture” dialog- like adding a picture to an mms or an email- I though the regedit in 2 would fix that but nope…