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Originally Posted by scorpionx

Thanks much for the responses. Let me make sure I have everything right

a Kitchen release is a barebones install of the phone's OS

with a Kitchen release, I can add software to it

the current wm6 release is hard coded, and I can't change it.

Second part

The extended rom then, do I need what is there currently? or can I take a backup and remove the current data and build my own installable apps for that? Is that what the build your own extended rom thread is about? I am reading those here and there at work

thanks again for the help, and holding my hand through this.

No problem

A kitchen is an application that allows you to build your own ROM from a list of applications. You can make a bare bones ROM, or one built up with as many oems as you can fit (applications that have been extracted from .cab files and modified for inclusion in the kitchen.)

Yes, the WM6 ROM is already compiled, and can't be altered without decompiling the nk.nbf, working some magic, and compiling it back up again.

All of the necessary programs from the carriers' extended ROMs are built into the WM6 ROM, so you don't need to let the extended ROM "Customizing in ..." run. You can, however, remove everything from your extended ROM by unlocking it and using Total Commander to remove the junk. You can also add programs to it and have them run on hard reset. I would suggest you check out the "Customizing your extended ROM" thread, or look around Colonel's thread. I know he's done a lot with extended ROM stuff.