Litestep + Win98 SE. Are there stability issues?

I have never, ever had any problem whatsoever wih Litestep, except two: <br /> <br />1. random file manager lock-ups, though I haven&acute;t seen that in aeons (must be fixed then) <br />2. XP stalls when displaying the logon screen if you don&acute;t use Explorer as a shell

Yeah, the file manager thing - that&acute;s one of the issues. Also, refreshing LS after running GTA (original version) causes the whole thing to freeze :( I can reproduce that problem at will. <br /> <br />Well, it&acute;s a newly built system. No harm in starting clean with a little more LS insight. <br /> <br />Anybody got any magic installation tips (apart from those in the READMEs)?

I had personally found builds prior to 2000 LS release to be way more stable on Win98 systems. I still use one of my early LS themes on the old beat up games box. Unfortunately, I can&acute;t really help you, cause I do not use any programs made after 2000 on that machine. From what I can gather, there could be some compatibility issues.

The file manager thing seems to have disappeared after I switched to XP. I guess XP is more lenient or better coded than 98. <br /> <br />As for tips, if you&acute;re new to this, you might want to use a shell loader, like ShellOn or Carapace. Also, the prime way to get in touch with people who are truly in the know is to ask on the LiteStep mailing list. You&acute;d have to sign up for that first though: http://wuzzle.org/list/litestep.php

Some modules don&acute;t work right for me, but it crashes a lot less than it did with explorer. I higly recomend it. <br /> <br />The real problem is that most of the community is on XP or 2000. There isn&acute;t enough testing done for 98 because there aren&acute;t enough ppl willing or knowledgable enough to beta test. Some module developers even dropping 98 support. I don&acute;t think it will be soon, but support for 98 will probably be ended eventually. <br /> <br />Sad thing is <b>explorer</b> has compatability and stability issues with 98. :P LiteStep is going to be a step up most likely. <br /> <br />If you do have a problem, most likely there is a fix for it. That you you can report the bug. That goes back to the beta testing problem: how would someone new know what module caused the problem and who to contact. ❌ <br /> <br />Much as I love litestep, I have to say that it&acute;s decentralization has it&acute;s problems. That&acute;s one of them above. If something goes wrong you have to figure out who the developer is. The mailing list seems like a good place to go for that though. I haven&acute;t used it as I would like to get another e-mail address for mailing lists.

just a short question: are you running Windows 98 as an OS or did you just have it installed for library dependencies? are you trying to run LS under *NIX?

hmm weard

grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr }:(

Windows ME is the problem, not LiteStep! At least I&acute;ve found ME to be extremely buggy anc crash-prone. Anyway that sounds like a module issue if it&acute;s not an issue with Linux. The only way to see which module it is is to disable the module and try the theme and keep doing this until you no longer see the problem.