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Wow, Litestep sure has evolved in the prettieness scale since I last saw it (was using Win98 at the time)!!MadSkillzMan said:Ive found something called LiteStep. Completely GPL liscensing. What it does is, replaces eplorer.exe. Basically its a bunch of new shells for windows. Its quite complicated however, but once i learn it i will try my best to teach you guys how to use it. The best thing is, it runs on all win platforms. The other thing is, your windows will remain the same from explorer.exe, but i beleive these can be skinned still the old way.
I was gonna go litestep, simply because thats the first one i saw and you can create your own...but then i saw these other ones. The thing here is, you are going WAY farther than just skinning it. Thing about litestep i liked was you could create your own functions, actions and controls. These others are simpler to install though, but i am not as familiar with them as i am litestep.
germanjulian said:Every time I use a theme I go back to windows classic after a few weeks cause it is the best!
any theme in xp uses resources! why do you think some themes are 3MB in size and some are 6MB in size? windows classic style doesnt use a theme so you save resources. yes you save about 4MB or ram and <<1% cpu time but hey you are using Resources.
also to note is that you didnt touch up on the topic of dll replacement to replace all the icosn in windows.
TC said:I've tried this out, but unfortunately it only seems to work with a handful of themes available at that site. Most of them I've downloaded and copied over to the themes folder, only to find they don't show up in the list of available themes. Most of those do say that they require one of those programs you mentioned in your first post. Is there some way around that? I've also noticed some of the themes show new toolbars in their screenshots, but I can't figure out how to activate them. Most of them look like Longhorn toolbars, so maybe the screen shots are actually of the real beta, not a custom theme in xp.
TC - the progam in question that emualtes the new sidebars in longhorn but for winxp is called - SmartBarXP BETA4.4
We found out from Shelfront, which, according to Rootrider, "found out .... from LS2K, which found out about this from Desktopian.org, which in turn found out from Ephedrine.