Is it possible to “root” a Windows Phone device? What are the benefits?

Question

Android devices can be "rooted", allowing unrestricted access to the file system, tethering, extra hardware control, and more.

The Windows Phone operating system is not a Linux-based operating system, but does the same idea still apply? If so, what WP-specific things can be done once the device is "rooted"?

Answer 1

Yes, with WP7RootTools.

It gives you:

• registry-editor (with access to low level previously restricted parts of the registry)
• file-explorer with basic file-operations
• certificate-installer with write-access to the certificate-stores
• policy-editor

Note that Rooting is different then unlocking and custom ROMs.