BIG Problem with Litestep... pls. help !

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heh.. you have lost your shell.8) <BR> <BR>Log intoyour WINXP admin account and changed the registry entries in the link provided by plastic above. Next time, use &acute;shell switcher&acute; program before you attempt to install any shell replacements.

I&acute;ll hazard a guess and say boot up with your E disk and type in help a DOS based text editor will come up then chosse file and open C\windows\system.ini and on the line that say&acute;s shell= put in explorer.exe <BR>that&acute;s if the XP set up is simular to Win98 SE and Grimspoon is very right in saying get a shell switcher before tamering with any aftermarket shell replacement,... LS Distro comes with a shell switcher and sevral themes you can switch between on the fly it&acute;s perfect some one new to LS and it completely installs it self.

Talon is not quite right....system.ini is for 9x....whereas XP is NT-based and the settings are in the registry. <BR>If you can access your taskmanager, you could run ShellON.exe [a shell switching proggy] and it will solve your problem, loading itself as the &acute;shell&acute; and allowing you to then boot into explorer [the default &acute;Doze shell]. <BR> <BR>Always use a shell loader with XP....[I knew I didn&acute;t like those &acute;STEP installers]...;)

I&acute;ve never actually had this situation myself.. so I had to recreate it. 8) <BR> <BR>I&acute;ve booted into my XP account, but no shell.. hmm, what do you do? <BR> <BR>Alt-Ctl-Del.. bring up Task Manager, choose New Task, type Regedit, look through registry.. <BR>Locate this key: HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon <BR>If it doesn&acute;t exist, create a string value called &acute;Shell&acute; <BR> <BR>Set the &acute;Shell&acute; string to : x:\path_to_ls\litestep.exe <BR>or <BR>Set the &acute;Shell&acute; string to : explorer.exe <BR> <BR>Reboot. <BR> <BR>hmm.. thats even easier then I thought 8) <BR> <BR> <BR> <BR> <BR>

The spoon wins the washing machine! Now about them Shell Managers, go read my Tek article!

Once upon a time, there was a Dutch guy named craeonics and he lived in Nether Nether land, and he wrote articles (Well a few) one of them was for this very purpose... <BR> <BR>http://teknidermy.com/news/artshellmanagers8.php <BR> <BR>go read... =) <BR> <BR> <BR>The End

*cough*all that was written before I had XP though and I have yet to switch shells in it*cough*

Once upon a time, there was a Dutch guy named craeonics and he lived far far away in Nether Nether land, and he wrote articles (Well a few) one of them was for this very purpose... <BR> <BR>but he did not test and switch shells after he got XP, sooooo <BR>he said beware! to the little skinners that may take heed to his advise in his article <BR> <BR>http://teknidermy.com/news/artshellmanagers8.php <BR> <BR>go read... =) <BR> <BR> <BR>The End

hmmm.... I wonder why I never have problems with Hoverdesk.... 🌙 <BR>:snow

snow.. it&acute;s because Hoverdesk is &acute;not&acute; a shel replacemet, it sits on top of the explorer shell and actually adds 25MB to your 27MB explorer load. OK.. that makes it 52MB&acute;s of memory used just so you can have a few shortcuts on your desktop? <BR> <BR>:moon <BR> <BR>my LS shell install fits on a floopy disk :p

and Crae, Litespawn &acute;hates&acute; fast user switching on XP, I wouldn&acute;t recommend it.. I&acute; <BR>m testing ShellOn ATM. 8)

Grim...ShellON is &acute;the go&acute; for XP...;)