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Old 11-26-2003, 04:13 AM
MichaelA
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I'd love to see the CabInstall and Remover applications added to the OS. These are two must have utilities IMHO.

CabInstall can install a CAB anywhere on your device, and you can decide if you want the file deleted by default or not.

Since I got my new Pocket PC 2003 device I have never used the built-in add/remove programs link, and have used Remover instead. Unlike the default add/remove, it doesn't forget about files and leave extra junk on your device after installing and uninstalling lots of applications.

Rather than rely on Microsoft and OEMs to choose what goes in ROM, I'd love it if utilities were available to dump the ROM, add/remove files, and then reflash it. Then we could all get rid of the unnecessry junk we never use (like Pocket MSN, the Pictures viewer, heck, even Pocket Word!) and install truly useful 3rd Party utilities we rely on. I remember reading somewhere that clever folks had built utilities to do this for one of the Pocket PC Phone devices. It's a shame we can't all customize our ROMs.
 
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