Additional Ideas for Customizing Your Home Screen

Since you can have up to 11 panes for your Home screen, try moving all your seldom-used program icons to another pane and keeping all your favorite programs on the first pane. That way, each time you open the Home screen, you'll see only your favorite program icons. When you need to use a seldom-used program, slide your finger over the screen from right to left to reveal the other Home screen panes with additional application icons.

As a rule, try to keep your Home screen as uncluttered as possible. One day when you're in a hurry and see a clean, uncluttered Home screen instead of a cluttered one with icons for programs you haven't used in months, you'll be thankful you followed this advice.

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