Here’s a tool that makes your emulator’s start screen look less like an emulator and more like a phone.
If you look at screenshots in the Marketplace that show the Start Screen, you will notice something strange – they all look the same – usually an Internet Explorer tile and a tile for the app. There are 2 reasons devs don’t show more tiles:
1. Sometimes, you don’t want the start screen to be too “noisy”
2. It’s impossible with the default emulator provided by Microsoft.