Question about Litestep/Explorer Shell
 

Well as some of you might know, I use Litestep as my shell. I had a few questions that I havent been able to find out myself and was wondering if any of you could possibly answer them for me.

A) Does litestep slow down your computer very much?

My computer specs are:

AMD Athlon XP 3200+ Barton
Asus A7n8x Mobo
Gig of Dual Channel DDR (kingston)
GeForce FX 5950 Video Card

Would litestep really affect my performance at all?

B) If I were to uninstall Litestep w/o actually setting Explorer as the shell first, would I have to reformat or would it automatically set Explorer as shell?

thx muchos for any help! :D

a) Litestep probably speeds up your computer compared to the explorer shell. It all depends on the amount of modules (can't remember the litestep term) you have loaded. The amount of dll's you load in your .rc files.

b) I don't think it'd automatically set Explorer. I think it depends on the way you uninstall. You could uninstall by removing the Litestep dir.. that'd be a bad way to do it. Through the Add/Remove Programs.. it will probably set your shell back to normal.

If it didn't still no need to reinstall. Somehow you should be able to use regedit on the registry to change the shell value back to explorer. Not exactly sure HOW you'd get to that point, so probably best you don't try it :)

ahahahahha thx there latch =P

It's been a while since I used litestep, but I'm pretty sure that it will put explorer back as your default shell. Also, I don't remember it being a registry entry. I think it was in one of the bootup files, but I can't remember which one right off hand.

As for resources, test it out yourself. If your computer is using more resources when running in litestep, then there is your answer. But for the specs you have, you should have no problem at all running it. It should only use a very small amount of memory (prolly around 10-20 meg)

I think in the 9x/ME days you could edit SYSTEM.INI (or one of the ini files) and set your shell through that. In 2K/XP, it's changed (I believe).