How can I remove 'Orange' apps? I have a bunch of complete crap apps on my phone which I can't move to the SD card, so they are taking up about 10mb of space on my phone, which is irritating when I want to update my phone as I need 25mb, so have to delete loads of apps.

I was considering rooting my phone, but this apparently doesn't allow you to delete them. So how do I go about this? I don't want to run a custom rom and am happy to stick with HTC's regular firmware, but I want to 'unbrand' my phone.

Any ideas please?
Rooting your phone without a custom ROM can be used to removed crapware. I have a french "Orange" HTC Desire, and here is what I did to remove the Orange apps:


use Unrevoked to root your phone (close Eclipse because it can prevent Unrevoked from detecting the reboot, use USB Drive Mode if you try to root on a Mac as they say it's more reliable)
once you're finished, reboot your phone in recovery mode (shutdown, press the - key and the Power button at the same time)
mount the /system partition as read/write (easy, it's a simple GUI)
open a shell on the phone with the command "adb shell"
get a root shell with the command "su"
go the /system/apps folder and remove whatever you want with rm (remove both APK and ODEX files that you don't need)
close your shell
unmount the /system partition
reboot


With this method, I removed the useless Tetris and other games demos that were on my phone.

I still don't know if rooting your phone will prevent me from getting OTA updates in the future, that's why I haven't got a custom ROM yet.