Originally Posted by mtaylor1811:
“Just been reading that some clever Chaps have actually got rid of the Sense and they say there HTC phones run so much quicker - thought i would have a go myself till i realised that I would have to ROOT my Phone etc - what on earth d0es ROOT your phone mean ? in English please lol”
ROOT basically means that you have administrator level access to your phone. Normally when you are using your phone, Android operating system restricts some of the stuff you can do, mainly to protect yourself.
As for getting rid of sense from your existing install, well you are actually completely replacing the phone's operating system (ROM) for a version without sense. And as you found out you need Root level access to do this.
There are various options for ROM, they are based on Android and then have their own tweaks added, there is a good review of options here,
http://www.androidpit.com/cyanogenmo...iui-jelly-bean
There are a couple of different base ROMS out there, Cyanogen