[JASJAR, XDA Exec, MDA Pro General] joebongo:
That's an awesome post craigiecraigie4, some hard work went into that one dude.

Now my post below is not intended to be better than the original, merely another option. craigiecraigie4's use of the device is obviously a lot different to mine, as I work in an office, and am out of connectivity for maybe 3 hours of travel a day max, and never at weekends unless I go out. I'm on a scooter or a tube train so no connectivity is possible during travel for me.

What we are describing is our comfortable loadsets or configurations of our little systems, and that's what the stuff down here is, the Bongo configuration if you will. :lol:

I have made my comments against craigiecraigie4's original titles, and added a few apps of my own that I have.

[*]Weirdness for Hallowe'en :shock: After a hard reset, then sometimes the crosshair pointer setup would be real slow, and others it would be fast. Just in case, I did it until I had a fast one and proceeded from there. Don't know what/if any difference it makes, but that's what I do.

[*]ROM Upgrade: As there aren't any upgrade ROM's out there execept for the iMate one, I wouldn't until the new carrier ROM's are posted. I agree with CraigieCraigie though. Sooo, why not then? Warranty is the answer. Although I think in reality they wouldn't wash their hands of you just because you dared to use someone else's ROM, the carrier techies are generally not allowed to instruct you in the art of repairing your device with anyone else's ROM except their own, and so you would need to wait until your carrier released an upgrade and they could tell you how to do it.

[*]Optional soft reset: Definitely. And be selective about the manual .cab installs (installing total commander or the like first to see the Ext ROM). There's generally something in there that forces the device to behave in a way you don't like. An example is the internet button taking me to the t-mobile home page all the time. I hate that so I didn't install the relevant .cab.

[*]Sync: Now sync with your PC to get your contacts, calendar and tasks. This is only here to get you up and running asap. <-yeah man :)

[*]Pocket Mechanic: Download (www.antontomov.com) I bought this. It's good meaty tools you would get in a full Windows OS that M$ didn't put in WM5 yet.

[*]Notification Queue: Did it once, didn't do it after my last hard reset and TBH, haven't felt a need. I probably would do if I installed it and saw a gazillion notifications spamming my inners up. :lol:

[*]Registry cleanup: Haven't done it, but a careful look and selective delete may be of some use. Can't be arsed is the honest answer

[*]Task closer: Haven't bothered this time to minimise my number of concurrently running programs (absurd logic eh :wink: ). I only use a certain few apps, and as they're few don't notice a big slowdown from having them minimised if they don't close fully

[*]Basic apps: Here are Craigie's apps with my comment, and my loadset apps

Total commander - yeah man, schmokin

TCPMP - I only use mp3's so no point for me. Perhaps if I need to watch videos I will reinstall it.

Batti - I use Spb GPRS Monitor, v2.3.0, b525, and it has a battery icon, and I have the icon on my today screen, and I can guess it most of the time.

TRE - I use BitsInside Regedit. Also free and I like the Win 98 feel to it.

IIWPO - Great idea, I didn't know it worked on Universals. I will do this cos you never know if it might lead you to a thief. They'd have to be non-savvy theives of course else they'd hard reset it before using the new SIM

BT icon - I use the FN + -> combination to get there or the connectivity icon on the status bar.

BT switch - as above

Battery Uptime - If you want to learn then great

apReminderPlus - I don't use the alarm function

VJSMS - Inbuilt in WM5 is fine so far for my needs

Agile messenger - very thrifty use of bandwidth, like <10% of MSN (really) and free at the moment, but will pay for itself in bandwidth charges very quickly for most people. Suck it and see

GPS Viewer - because I have a Holux GPS and want to verify connectivity sometimes

Pocket Hack Master - because I like to crank it up to delightfully unstable 624MHz sometimes, but haven't need to with my installation as described here oddly enough. It's fast enough for me so far.

Pocket MSN because I want the Hotmail to appear in my messages application. I use Agile to IM people as above

TomTom Navigator 5.1 because it's awesome

[*]Settings: Time to do your basic settings:

speed dials

power and backlight

voice dials

Owner info

ringtones and notifications

DO NOT set regional settings if u r using PI (below)

[*]PIM: OK, time to replace the CRAP calendar built into WM5 - I agree it's crap, but I don't need a decent one. I am a simple soul.

[*]Reg fixes: - If you want to

Buzz's BT headset - haven't noticed this issue yet, bet I will tomorrow morning now though :D

"Always on GPRS" No good for me - 40megs/month tariff limit

Date & time in title bar (why not) - cos I know the date and time.

Menu and popup fonts 700 vs 900 - haven't done it yet. I like the size

PIE homepage - is done for me through my selective Ext ROM install

Terminal services cache - I don't use it yet

Turn IR off - yeah agreed waste of space most of the time.

[*]Extra apps:

eWallet - I don't keep details like that on my phones.

Pocket sudoku - I read books, so insert MS Reader for me there

Mobipocket reader - doesn't support .lit (MS format), and I read .lits and .docs so far. Wait until I run out of books though... :lol:

uBook - haven't needed it ....yet

1-calc - but the inbuilt calc does +, -, * and / so it's cool for me. I'm not a physicist

GPRS traffic monitor - spb is fine for me as I don't use it as a modem due to bandwidth limitations and being surrounded by connectivity in London.

[*]Memory:Haven't done these, but they look sensible if you can be arsed

Remove backgammon & skype, and re-install to SD card - I don't have them or use them anyway. How do you play backgammon? I went to a comprehensive school :D

Remove the 1Mb .tsk themes from the \Windows directory. I only have 3 default ones and use the standard blue theme. Functionality and not form is my motto :wink:

Do not use these big theme files - Good advice bro' (or sis)

Hope this is helpful to some other people :lol: