Some essential freeware pocketpc apps:
magic button:
makes the X button actually close things and if you tap and hold the X it turns the top bar into a taskbar of runing apps
Calander+ and Task+
displays tasks on the today screen and gives much more options
DevState Device status on today screen
hard to find nowadays as i thin kits now japanese only but the english version is stil lgoing about. gives you a quick launch bar and a memory. battery bar on the today screen. highly customisable
Microsoft Money 2005 Pocket
Syncs with PC and shows your balances on the today screen which is nice, bad point is it cant delete transactions
PocketRAR (Free)
Does both zips and rars which is good if you dont have a pc as much PDA software is zipped/rared .cab files
.NET Compat Franework
Needed for some apps but a big memory hog
Adobe Reader
Slow but in reality, the only PDF reader you will ever need
Microsoft Theme Generator
DO NOT LET THIS INSTALL THE POCKETPC APP IT WANTS TO AS IT WILL CRASH THE TODAY SCREEN OF NON WM2002 DEVICES, otherwise good except it doesnt let you cahnge the start menu colour
PocketPC Safemode
gives you the option to boot into safemode on the owner scren after a soft reset - safe mode is god as it disables all startup software, plugins and services so you cn fix problems and stops the loadin of additionall fonts etc.. too
Sompy Media Player
Has mpeg support, huge level of customisation
PocketShutXP
XP style reset/suspend/hard reset taskbar applet
TenGO
good and fast predictive input system but takes a bit of getting used to although it includes an excelent interactive tutorial.
.NET VNC and Pocketputty
Much better than terminal services
SPB Extended theme generator
Much better than the MS version (Installs over it)
