ahh ok .. i was thinkin pear shaped... my bad ....

Speaking of helping me, I have a question/problem.

For some reason I have been having mutiple problems when trying to use Litestep, Iconx, and Desktop X. Im trying to run them seperatly and I am using the free versions which I am aware of some restrictions.

I wonder if it could possibly be becuase of SPA2 but then im sur others would also have the same problems.

I have up-to-date everything. No viruses, spyware ect.

I was thinking of doing another reformat just to see if luck is on my side. Im really upset that I cant get them to work.
Iconx especially. I wonder if there is anything I might need or be overlooking. I generally have been able to figure things out. However, this problem has got me stumped.

What really gets me is that everything used to work fine but now it just twiches and jumps over the screen and sometimes IconX changes its own configuration. Before I restart my machine "If you can understand that.

Oh, and if you hav'nt noticed I have turned this thread into my personal postings!

http://beyondconvention.net/ohussain/lsinstaller/

That'll get it installed.....then...

http://www.litestep.net/?section=7&catId=0&action=details&id=93 

Should get you to RC3....the latest build.

It's a beta...but then so are all LS builds, really...

 

Install with installer....get out of LS and copy the core files in RC3 to overwrite the ones in the install....reload LS....and Bob's yer Uncle...

Ok.

I give up on litestep. Im just to much of a novice for it. JAfo, this time when I reinstalled Litestep it frooze my PC up, I had no choice but to reformat again! So I must say that your litestep themes look really good but I must stay away from Litestep untill I can find time to really learn how it works.

Thanks for all the past help thou.

As for Doodle bug. Still no word. How can someone be so hard to contact, this is ridiculous, sometimes I wonder what he would even say to me if I located him. I hope that when the day comes he is understanding. Anyway, its late and im beat. Goodnight Wincustomize

Im trying to run Object Dock Plus. It is acting strange. When I run it and click on the desktop then an object dock plus window opens in the task manager. Its really pi**ing me off. I ran norton disk check and it says there is a problem with my security decriptors what does that mean? and is it a problem. Olus when I reboot for it to fix it does'nt.

So what do I do. And could this be related to the Object dock plus problem. It seems like lately every thing is going whack. I've reformated like 4 times already im still having issues with just about all stardock apps.

Jafo do you use SPA2.

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LS is evil!

Annie, marry me......

Finally some answers!!!!

Ok, the object dock plus problem was my mistake. I simply fixed it from the options screen. "Unchecked show in task bar" Im surprised no one knew to tell me this IE.Jafo...lol

The problem I was having with IconX is stardocks problem!
Simply found from reading other threads.

The SPA 2 problem I was having is Microsoft's problem. Their update site will sometimes post updates that you already have, then when you try to reinstall an update, it says it failed, only it did'nt fail, you just already have it. I found that information while browsing Microsoft's update trouble shooter.

As for LS well im to scared to try it now that things are running smoothly again. Now im off to finish reinstalling my software.

Geez, I should have left well enough alone. Atleast now three days after trying to reformat my PC and use SPA2 I finally have my answers and am back on track. Time to see whats new in the downloads section of wincustomize.
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csurfside: now that you got everything working great, create a restore point in XP's System Restore (Start/Programs/Accessories/System Tools/System Restore). That way you can still play around LiteStep or whatever you wish and if your system goes haywire instread of formating again for the Nth time, just do a system restore.

Why don't you just purchase Object Desktop (50$ the first year, 35$/year after that) instead of buying every software seperatly. The only thing that does NOT come with Object Desktop is Cursor XP and Object Dock Plus. Window Blinds, Icon X, Desktop X, Object Bar, and over a dozen more programs are included.  If you just purchased one of the above and would wish to change your purchase to the whole Object Desktop suite, maybe you can contact Stardock sales (sales @ Stardock.com) and maybe they would just make you pay the difference. You never know. Note that when you subscribe to Object Desktop, you have access to all the alpha and beta versions, so you always have the latest up to date version of every program.

If you have Norton Ghost, I guess that is a good alternative to System Restore.

As for Object Desktop, it's a yearly subscrition that gives you access to all the Object Desktop software for a full year, instead of only buying a one time software. Every version of every software there will be available to you. If you don't renew your subscription, you still gte to keep the software you have of course. You're not renting the software, you're given the opportunity to download and install everything.  For example, if you purchased Windowsblinds 4, you only purchased the version 4 of Windowblinds. But if you're an Object Desktop subscriber, and Windowblinds 5 is released during your subscription, it's yours.  Not to mention that Windowblinds is 20$, IconPackager is 20$, DesktopX is 20$, Windows FX is 20$, Icon X is 10$. But you get all these and many more goodies for only 50$ with Object Desktop (furthermore renewal is only 35$). Well worth it if you ask me.

You know I just check and I have purchased Icon Packager and Window Blinds 4 can you give me an e-mail to who I would contact if I wanted to discuss the price for Object Desktop.

Contrary to popular mis-information, LiteSTEP will never 'require' you to reformat, or to reinstall Windows.

It is a simple executable much like notepad.exe except it provides module-loading capacity to create an alternate GUI functionality to that of Explorer.exe [yet another simple executable].

In XP life is dead simple, as the OS kernel is directly accessible via the task manager enabling the stopping of any errant process, or the starting of such as regedit or, better still, an alternate Shell management proggy for those who might need more hand-holding.

XP can happily run shell-less and therefore GUI-less....though it gets a bit tedious working via Task Manager, it's not impossible at all.

I used to load a shell manager to assist in switching between them but now I can't be bothered...I just kill one process or another.

Sure, you can load a dud theme and end up without a GUI....but that's a minor glitch, not a reason to abandon ship and swear off shells for all eternity.

You should NEVER 'need' System Restore to recover from a bad shell load....talk about overkill...

System Restore is for those who delete their System32 folder or some such in an attempt to save space......and wonder why the comp is only half there.....

In all my themes I include the line in my 'ReadmeFirst.txt'....

Remember....Litestep doesn't kill computers....people kill computers....