New To Softmodding, And I'm Overwhelmed By The Options Options

[gloriousgraphite]

As the title suggests I have not previously softmodded an xbox. Naturally soon after looking into it, I was lead here, and there seem to be a whole lot of guides and related jargon that I'm not familiar with. Some guides seem fairly simple, but are good few years old, whereas others I can barely follow.
So I ask, from your personal experience softmodding, which method/software would you say is the best (and preferably easiest)? Also, what would be the quickest way I can get on to using that method ie which guide(s) to follow, software to use etc. ?
I really appreciate any help. Many thanks

[Ash123]

OK. So on the first line there is a shortcut to XMBC in that folder but it's still showing up red on the evox main menu screen. I edited the first line to where XBMC actually is, f:\Apps\XBMC\default.xbe but it reverts back to the original line. I even copied over an evox.ini with the new line but it automatically went back to the shortcut folder.

Plus, there's no shut down or reboot on the main menu screen but in the ini it's there.

CODE

[Menu]

Section "Root"
{
    Item "XBMC", "e:\Shorcuts\XBMC Shortcut\xbmc.xbe"
    Item "Launch DVD",ID_Launch_DVD
    Section "Games"
    {
        AutoAddItem "e:\games\"
        AutoAddItem "f:\games\"
        AutoAddItem "g:\games\"
        SortAll
    }
    Item "Trainers",ID_trainer
    Item "Skins",ID_Skins
    Section "Xbox Admin"
    {
        Section "Applications"
        {
            AutoAddItem "e:\apps\"
            AutoAddItem "f:\apps\"
            AutoAddItem "g:\apps\"
            SortAll
        }        
        Section "Dashboards"
        {
            Item "Evolution-X", "e:\dash\evolutionx\evoxdash.xbe"
            Item "MS Dashboard", ID_MS_DASH
            Item "UnleashX", "e:\dash\unleashx\unleashx.xbe"
            SortAll
        }
        Section "Switch Dashboards"
        {
            Line "Set up the files first"
            Item "1. Set up files", @238
            Item "2. Switch Dashboards", "E:\HeXEN Tools\default.xbe"
        }
        Section "System"
        {
            Item "Settings",ID_Settings
            Item "Backup",ID_Backup
            Item "Flash BIOS",ID_Flash_Bios
            Item "Lock Harddisk",@210
#            Item "Unlock Harddisk",@211
#            Section "Video Mode Switch"
            {
                Item "USA - NTSC ",@ID_Reg_NA
                Item "Japan - NTSC",@ID_Reg_J
                Item "PAL",@ID_Reg_ROW
            }
        }
    }
    Item "Clear Cache",@237
    Item "Soft Reboot",ID_Quick_Reboot
    Item "Hard Reboot",ID_Full_Reboot
    Item "Power Off",ID_Power_Off
}

This post has been edited by Ash123: Jul 30 2012, 08:11 PM