[Advantage X7500, MDA Ameo ROM Development] eaglesteve:
Yeh! Yes! This is EXACTLY what I am looking for.

BTW, can I give you some input on this for your next master piece?

1) Remove HTC Home. I have a very good reason for suggesting this. You see, I have just discovered that you can have a superfast diamond interface by using SPB Mobile Shell with the diamond interface. It is just absolutely awesome interface. It's superfast, it's finger friendly, and it is the only today plugin one would ever need as it covers multi-location time, alarm, calendar, mail alert, missed call alart, phone profile changing, weather, photo dialing, launcher, and everything you find in HTC home. Except this is much more flexbile with no limit on number of program you could launch and three pages of photo dialing. However, since SPB mobile shell is not a freeware, we need to install this by ourselves.

2) Remove getting started. Let's be real. Who still need this?

3) Retain the Large Start menu (I think it is finger friendly) but put in the Large Start Manu in the setting.

4) Replace HTC TouchFLO with FtouchSL trial version.

5) Remove Office Mobile and put it into an addon. I find this software too limiting to be useful. SoftMaker should be used for anyone serious in doing office work on the Athena.

6) Remove all games

7) Remove HTC Album and the Picutres & Video application and make it an add-on. I will not be using both of these, as I find Resco Picture Viewer Pro to be far better.

8) Remove File Explorer again like you did and put in Total Commander.

9) Put in MoBlue

10) Remove Internet Explorer and make it an add-on. I think most of us will use Opera and/or Netfront. For the rest who really want the PIE, they can put it back themselves.

11) Make realVGA an add-on. Like you said in one of the post, if you're a dpi128 person, why put in the 96dpi stuff? For me, I'm now more into just 192 dpi, so realVGA will not be needed at all.

12) Don't put in any registry editor. I'll be using Resco Registry editor which is the best in the market today. It let's me use my thumb to easily navigate around. Since it is not a freeware, we'll purchase and install this on our own. Provide as add-on free registry editor such as PHM registry editor.

13) Remove all software keyboard other than the standard keyboard. The less you have there, the more reliably and quickly will we be able to switch between standard and our own software keyboard.

14) Synchro Time should be built in if nobody have any objection. I think all of us will use this.

15) I'm in favour of building in the SIP change utility, but am aware that some of us never need this as they use the hardware keyboard. So, let's make this an add on.

16) Similarly, I'm in favour of building in wktask, but am aware that some of us use other methods of task switching such as quick menu. So, again, let's make this an add on.

17) Window media is again only used by some, as each of us have our own favourite music and video player. I'm using Coreplayer. So, let's make WMP an add-on.

18) Windows live and windows messenger. Not all of us use this. There are so many far superior options available, such as IM+ and Slick(I think that is the name of the package that MiChY uses. So, let's make this an add-on.

19) Let's put in the auto-rotate after all. I know that I did'tn lilke it slowing down the device. However, many interesting applications such as the bubble level requires this. But let's have an easy way to toggle it off, may be using your ToggleAutoRotate utility program built in.

20) Youtube Player should be built in because I cannot visuallise anybody NOT wanting this.

21) Remove customer feedback and windows update. I don't think anybody use this. Let us know if anyone does.

22) Next come to the splash screen. I love the HTC logo animation personally. I also like the white background HTC logo primary splash. I actually have come to dislike the XP theme because the DOS screen reminds me of desktop start up which is slow. It somehow gives me a feeling that it's going to be a Loooonng wait when I see that XP desktop black splash screen. I also don't feel comfortable teaching potential thief how to soft and hard reset my device;)

23) I'm in favour of putting in radio 1.58 as I'm quite convinced that it gives superior data connection capability. But again, I respect that some may not want this, so let's leave it out for all to install that separately

24) .net 3.5 of course.

Our goal: As light as possible so that it can go as fast as possible on the newest available features (such as newest Contact application) without error, white giving users the maximum flexibility in choosing their own applications.

I think that will be quite Super Ultra Vanilla. What do you think?