I just got this phone a few days ago. I started throwing on a few programs I thought I might need. A Registry editor and a Task Manager. I selected "Kill all Non-System programs" in the Task Manager, to free up some memory.

Now when I push the Start button, the Start menu just freezes. It still shows up in the title bar, but the icons don't display, and it can't be used. If anyone could help I would greatly appreciate it. Thank you so much in advance.

Fixed it this morning. Only solution I could find was a hard reset, which did the job perfectly.

WARNING!!!!

DO NOT end the appman proccess OR the Start.exe application in ANY Task Manager. The result could be your Start Menu freezing. Always try and manual choose which processes and which applications to stop, if you need to free up memory.

This could have been another error of mine, but this isn't a bad practice any way, so just an FYI to everyone.

I recommend Resco System Toys for a good task manager. It never gives you the more advanced/powerful option to close down system tasks, hence the unit can still benefit from a hard reboot weekly (although I've gone as long as a month w/o needing one). It is a fairly cheap program, shows a more accurate depiction of battery power, and is a great task manager program for closing one or all of the running apps. Check that out as a good alternative, so ya dont accidentally close system TSRs.