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Written by: Mike Temporale
Saturday, June 7, 2008 1:00pm
In my previous post about the quick launch application on the BlackJack II, I talked about some keys being locked to pre-loaded applications. It would be nice if I could remove the AT&T Mall shortcut as I’ll never be using that. Same goes for the Media Net shortcut. It’s not that those aren’t valuable services, I’m just not using AT&T so they don’t make any sense for me to have.
To remove this restriction, you will need a registry editor that can modify the device’s registry. I like to use the one that comes with SOTI’s Pocket Controller Pro. But there are plenty more to pick from, including ones that run on the device like Resco and PHM.
So, fire up this registry editor and browse to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE \ Software \ Samsung \ KeyRun. You will see a value in that location called PreDefined and you’ll never guess what values it has stored in it. That’s right, it has the letters that are restricted and cannot be changed. Simply edit this value and remove the letter you want to change or remove all the letters, the choice is yours. Once you’ve made the changes, just reopen the Function Key option from the settings menu and you can now set the letter you want to the program of your choice. A word of warning on this - be careful to setup everything the way you like. I went to delete a tag I didn’t want and it repopulated the predefined values on me. 
If you don’t want to mess around with the predefined values; If you look under the KeyRun folder in the registry, you will find a number of letters. Each entry here is defined in the functions list. Simply modify the letter you want to point to your application of choice. AppPath should be the path to the program and AppTitle should be the name of the app.
Let me know how these work out for you. 
Now that Samsung has made the Windows Mobile 6.1 ROM upgrade official for the 
The original BlackJack from Samsung sported a really cool quick launch application that was launched when you did a press and hold on the scroll wheel. The list of applications was fully customizable and you could scroll through the list rather easily. Overall it was a great application that I used daily.
Well, they didn’t completely remove this quick launch application. Instead, they created a Fn-Key shortcut system. From the Today screen, you can press and hold the Function key followed by a key on the keyboard to launch a given application. The list of application is customizable - somewhat. There are some values that are pre-populated and can’t be changed. As the image indicates, Fn+C will launch AT&T Mall. That’s all well and good, but I would much rather have Fn+C launch the calculator. You can add any un-used letter and browse to any application on your device that you want to launch. But you can’t change the default applications. At least not without hacking the device (more on that in a future post). 
