[Touch HD General] Chef_Tony:
1. the gap at the top of the start menu will eventually fill up with your recently used programs in big icon style.

2. the font size can be changed with HDTweak, a must have program for the blackstone

3. if you on't like it at all, you can look up a rom that does not have it, or install another volume control, and then uninstall it again, that way, it should revert to windows mobile standard, and not htc standard.

4. have a look into input options, afaik the stock rom still comes with all the classic input options like keyboard, block recognizer, transcriber...

5. what menu exactly, describe a little more or make a screenshot.

6. the blackstone by default has 528mhz, the leo has 1ghz, and if even teeter does not run smoothly, you might want to perform a hard reset or have a look which rom is installed and change that, either to the latest stock rom or to a cooked rom. that behaviour is not normal

7. you can change fonts by putting new fonts in the windows\fonts\ folder and use a tweak app to apply them (i'm not sure, whether they all have fonts options though)

8. the external gps option, as the name points out, is for the use with an external gps receiver, which would be connected via bluetooth. it has nothing to do with the internal one. all programs that use the gps should have the option "gps managed by windows" or "internal gps". using that setting you have to do nothing more to set up gps. for instance: i use gps in manila, google maps, klicktel and navigon mobile navigator. manila and klicktel didn't need any gps settings, in google maps you just need to activate "use gps" and in navigon, where there are detailed gps settings for all kinds of devices, i just set "let windows manage my gps". you never have to set a com port, baud rate... if you are asked for those settings, you picked the wrong option in the first place.

no offense, but let me ask you a question: i know we talked before, about the classic wm6.1 home screen. these are many questions that are very special and all revolve around the basic interface of winmo. do you really need every single thing to be exactly like with old devices like the himalaya? windows mobile was developed further than that and most of the development is a good thing. for one thing, winmo distanced itself a bit from being a pda to becoming a phone, that could be used for fun as well and it has become finger-friendly. castrating this wonderful finger-friendly phone to becoming a mid-2000's pda, with the need for stylus control and an ugly interface does not make sense to me. i had a blueangel and a universal for years, and i know the pda feeling from all the time i used them with stock wm2003se (and stock wm5 respectively). then i got bored and tried cooked roms, and in the end, when i knew, the devices are too weak and lack a lot of hardware features (g-sensor, gps, ambient light sensor, stylus sensor, 3.5g, proper camera...), i decided to get myself a blackstone, and basicly, after a few minutes of getting used to it, i am happy about all the change, that's why i bought a new phone.

so why did you buy a new phone, to castrate it to behave just like a very old phone?