Anyone use LiteStep Ever?

I am just wondering if any of you have used litestep?! I am just wondering what the big differences are between DesktopX and LiteStep. Also, if you have bought Object Desktop, do you find yourself using mostly only desktopx stuff, or all of it?

Thanks!
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Reply #1 Top
airedale....I've used LiteSTEP long before DesktopX was a viable alternative to 'GUI' restyling/shell/enhancement.
I tend to stick with what I know better, but generally your 'Customizing' experience will be a lot more 'fun' if you stay with Object Desktop, and all it includes.
GUI improvements which run seemlessly alongside Explorer[the Windows' shell] will be much less 'perillous' than total shell replacements such as LiteSTEP, which has been known to totally throw some users...
Reply #2 Top
Just my 2 cents- LiteStep is powerful and customizable to every last detail, but modifying requires some intense text editing (think .ini files). DesktopX is much easier to use and design for, and it's never locked my computer. LiteStep, to the contrary, has caused several unrecoverable problems that prompted complete OS reinstalls, although that's not everybodies case.
Reply #3 Top
Just to clarify...LiteSTEP [and other shells] can prompt the OS 'kernel' to get all 'scared' and think it has no shell and claim 'You must reinstall Windows'.
This is never actually the case.
Generally all that has happened is a certain dll is 'missing' or a path setting is wrong.
Neither require a Windows re-install, but just a little pre-emptive 'RTFM'.
Fore-warned is fore-armed...
Reply #4 Top
Don't mess with the registry unless you're sure you're doing it CORRECTLY!.
Reply #7 Top
Anything you have running on your system will impact in some way. If you wish to individualize your computing experience you will be happy to expend a few resources doing so.
If not, then you'd be better running your system from a command prompt and bypass any GUI totally.

People get paranoid about mem use, for example, yet a typical comp will have 256meg at least of very fast ram and 32meg AGP Graphic card....and I think back to my extensive GUI customizing on a P100 with 8meg of EDO and a 1meg PCI card....[AND ran Photoshop]...
Reply #8 Top
CPU hits? I'd have to check that to be exact, but then again it would differ on your system to mine or anyone elses for that matter. But is it going to bring your system to its knees? I doubt that very much, otherwise who would use it let alone purchase it?

one thing you could do is run TaskInfo2003 http://iarsn-downloads.swmirror.com/tskinf50.exe before anything loads. Stop everything from loading on bootup. Turn off or remove anything that is going to try and load on bootup. Then run Taskinfo, then load DesktopX and go into TaskInfo and it will tell you exactly the CPU hits, memory used, etc by DesktopX. Load different Themes and it will again tell you exactly what resources are being used and by what using.

Then bootup with everything reset to normal and check your resources, then load DeskTopX again and check again.

You should have a good idea, more than most worry about, of exactly what is using up your resources and what it being a glutton with them.

Anyway...

TaskInfo2003 is one of the best apps for getting a grasp on what applications do what on that end of things, in mpov such as it is.


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Reply #9 Top
Jafo is a smart guy!!

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