So I installed these games in Windows Mobile that I wanted to try out, see? And they didn’t work quite right, so I wanted to delete them. So first, I went into ActiveSync on my desktop, clicked the check-box, and clicked okay. They didn’t get deleted.

So next, I selected them in ActiveSync and clicked the “Remove” button. They still didn’t get deleted. Next I went into my Start menu in Windows and deleted them from there. Now there were deleted as far as ActiveSync was concerned, but there were still there on my O2.

So okay, I went onto my O2 and used the “Remove Programs” tool. It told me, “I couldn’t remove everything,” and though the icons for the programs were removed, they still showed up in the list of games (although nothing launched now, of course), only with the “generic” icon. So I searched through the folders on the device to find all the files associated with the apps so that I could delete them by hand, and did so.

Except it turns out there is a directory for each game under Windows/AppMgr on the device that cannot be removed; Window Mobile says that I do not have permission.

Of course, when I hook the device up to my PC and pull up the Properties window, it doesn’t display any permissions at all; it just gives the Folder name. And if I, the owner of the device, don’t have permission to delete the files and folders, jeez, who the heck does?

Have I mentioned lately how friggin’ LAME I think WM is? No? Well, I DO.

If Palm hadn’t flamed out so badly, I’d still be using Palm devices. June
29th can’t come too soon, as far as I’m concerned. I’ve gotten used to most of WM’s idiosyncrasies, but I still can’t believe some of its nonsense.

Like the fact that I have to reboot my device several times a day. And the fact that I had to install a third-party app to get the “close” icon to actually close programs. And . . .