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OH MY GAWD!!Litestep put a heavy foot on my butt!!Totally crashed me machine!!System Restore for me and things still aint right.I wish I had'nt dun it but it's too late now by looking at all that registry funk!!I would'nt mind seein them go away to give space to a more user freindly system.Leave Litestep fer the geeks,,eh!!??running XP,big-n-fast,,,until Litestep.

You don't 'need' to install LiteSTEP at all....all you need is to install ShellON as a shell manager and copy some files into a LiteSTEP directory, and, if it all goes pear-shaped, well, the Shell manager will let you back to Exploder painlessly.

No need for System Restore....no need to Re-Install Windows....no need to tear hair out.

I can't say it's 'idiot-proof', though....past history proves otherwise...

/me sits in the corner trying not to laugh to loud....

hehe

LS Killed my windows 98 computer! every time i try to login, it says "cannot no litestep.exe blah blah blah, somthing or other, reinstall windows."

Typical

Taoy

For God's sake don't reinstall Windows. Try this (this assumes you've installed Windows in the default folder, if not change the path accordingly):

1. Reboot into DOS mode and type "edit c:\windows\system.ini" {without the quotes).
2. Find the line in the [boot] section that says shell=c:\path\to\whatever.exe
3. Replace shell=c:\path\to\whatever.exe with c:\windows\explorer.exe the line should now read shell=c:\windows\explorer.exe.
5. Save the file and close the editor.
4. Reboot.

Everything should now be fine.

OOPs

Item 3. should read:

3. Replace c:\path\to\whatever.exe with c:\windows\explorer.exe the line should now read shell=c:\windows\explorer.exe.

How did you like my numbering?

jcg...loved the numbering...

That line only needs to be 'Shell=explorer.exe"...the Windows kernel 'knows' where explorer.exe is...the path is redundant...

Snowman: if you want to run HoverDesk as shell and not as desktop replacement, you´ll have to exactly the same things as with LiteStep. if you want a system tray HVD will even become a little more complicated as you will need a third party app for this. check the HVD helpfile for more info.

sry, was on vacation. back now, read everyting, i know, ls messed up my machine too ( ahh how i lv Winstep, if only ppl made more themes for it, and nice wallpapers like medulla oblangata, thats a cool wallpaper , heh