[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Windows Mobile General] ChasDun:
I can tell you the answer, but I don't think you are going to like it. Turn off TouchFlo. IMO it is a very poor interface to begin with. And it eats up way too many resources for an always-on app. Which then leads to the obvious, spb Mobile Shell. This is a highly functional, fairly customizable interface with a definite sex appeal built in. But it is a memory hog like no other app. And the more you customize it the slower your startup will be. I ran it for about 4months and could not stand the slow startup and operational lags. Now I run spb Pocket Plus. And my device has no lags whatsoever and the startup time is easily half of Mobile Shell or Touchflo. My device is now highly customizable and as fast as can be...much more so than with either of the two aforementioned apps. Sure, it is not as sexy as Mobile Shell, but take these points into consideration.

Allows for 6 finger-friendly tabs to run across the top of the home screen. More tabs can be added but they get smaller and harder to click after the 6th tab. This gives much quicker access to the different tabs than the flick-scrolling left and right in mobile shell.

If you add a nice background image and change the Pocket Plus icon settings to "large" and to not "show label", you will get a good-looking interface. See below.

While displaying large icons you can get 36 icons/apps per tab. I choose to spread mine out so it is not so tight and still get 16 per tab, plenty enough for me.

You actually get some customization that you cannot get in Mobile Shell. For example, see my second pic below which shows my internet tab. I can have my different browsers as large icons at the top, and then have my shortcuts to actual web sites as smaller icons with descriptive text. This allows me to launch 20+ of my favorite sites from the home screen.

It gives you built in access to certain system settings as well as many plugins (but the plugins will slow down the interface, so I do not use any). See my third picture that shows my "Settings" tab.

You can add any program, file or shortcut that resides in your "My Documents" folder or "Start Menu" folder. Pocket Plus along with Rhodium Keyboard Controller allows me to get to anything on my device withing 2 or 3 seconds.

Also comes with an Alt-Tab program switch feature, a Safe mode as well as several other add-ins that may be worth your while.

You can spend half your life using all of the Mobile Shell tweaks to get your device to do exactly what you like or you can spend 30 minutes setting up Pocket Plus and getting twice the responsiveness as well. Now, understand that Mobile Shell users are as rabid as iPhone users. So they are going to follow up my post saying that Mobile Shell has no lag on their device and is just as fast operationally. It just isn't so. Run a process tool like MemMaid or dotFred while Touchflo is running, then Mobile Shell, then Pocket Plus. No comparison. Do yourself a favor and try Pocket Plus. If you own a TP2 device then you are really too old to be seduced by form over function, aren't you? Pocket Plus gives you a happy medium for both.

One last point. No matter what home screen or launcher app you use, you will always get hammered in the reboot time, responsiveness and battery life departments if you are using the gimmicky widgets that are contiuously pushing info and searching for updates. I quickly got over the novelty of Weather, Stock, Sports apps and the like after I realized how poorly they were making my device perform. With Pocket Plus and 3G I am only a click away and a 5 second wait from getting all of that same info without it being always on and dragging my system to a crawl. Be smart and your device will once again perform as good as any other on the market.