Litestep Desktop Shell

[mello_j 0]

I have seen some screenshots of the Litestep replacement shell for windows. It looks pretty good.

 

I was interested in getting it, but i wanted to find out if anyone out there has had success with it in Windows 2k?

 

Also which build or version would you recomend, since the litestep website lists several...thanks!

[Donald2B 0]

I am using Darkstep v. .971 in windows 2000 and I am having no problems! I am even using some litestep modules with darkstep. Very stable and no problems here. The best thing is that it uses less resources than the Windows Explorer default shell.

 

My 2 cents worth. ; )

 

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System Specs:

Asus P2B-D

Dual PIII 700MHz

512MB PC100 RAM

Elsa GeForce2 GTS 64MB Video Card

Promise Ultra66 Controller

WD 15.3 GB HDD

WD 20.5GB HDD

Asus 50x CD-ROM

Sony 4x4x24 CD-RW

SB Live! Platinum

SuperMicro SC-750A Case w/ 400 Watt PS

[nagual 0]

why would you want explorer to use less recources with 512 mb ram? =) thats all it uses more of =)

[Bursar 0]

I think it's quite important that your shell has as little overhead as possible.

 

I have 512MB RAM in my PC, and last night when I ran Task Manager, it was showing that I was using approximately 1GB of memory. Obviously some of this is swap file, but bloody hell!!

 

With that amount of RAM it shouldn't really need to touch the swap file. Especially as the machine had only just booted up!

 

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PIII 650 Coppermine

Intel 440BX-2 Motherboard

2x256MB PC 100 RAM

Maxtor 92049U6 20.4GB 7200RPM UDMA66

Maxtor 52049U4 20.4GB 7200RPM UDMA66

Matrox Millenium G400 MAX

AOpen 52x IDE CD-ROM

Yamaha CRW4416S SCSI CD-RW

Microsoft IntelliMouse Explorer USB

Microsoft SideWinder Force Feedback Pro

US Robotics Sportster Flash v90 External modem

Iiyama Vision Master Pro 17

3Com EtherLink XL PCI (3c900B Combo)

Adaptec 2940 Ultra Wide SCSI controller

Sound Blaster Live! Value

Windows 2000 Professional

[Toby 0]

Bursar,if you are not talking about AVAILABLE MEMORY you got a HUGE memoryleak in some startup-app..

 

// Toby

[Donald2B 0]

I work with a lot of 3D Animation packages...namely 3D Studio Max and MAYA, so every little bit of extra RAM helps!! Nothing is worse than working in a scene and your harddrive sounds like it is grinding coffee because all of your Physical RAM is gone and its hitting the harddrive for all it is worth. I personally think that for what I am doing that 512MB of Ram is not enough. I am going out to get another 512MB of Ram this weekend to really get this thing cranking!! ; )

 

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System Specs:

Asus P2B-D

Dual PIII 700MHz

512MB PC100 RAM

Elsa GeForce2 GTS 64MB Video Card

Promise Ultra66 Controller

WD 15.3 GB HDD

WD 20.5GB HDD

Asus 50x CD-ROM

Sony 4x4x24 CD-RW

SB Live! Platinum

SuperMicro SC-750A Case w/ 400 Watt PS

[hteles 0]

Hey man, i think that the problem is with windows & not with the amount of MEM.

 

The more you get the more he wants.

Did you ever think of installing BeOS?

 

 

 

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http://win2ktools.cjb.net

 

Asus CUSL2 Mobo

PIII 6000EB

Creative GE F**K Force

SB LIVE!

256Mb

8.4GB UTA66

[nagual 0]

man if youre comp hits 1 gig just after reboot the prob is not the ram its inbetween the chair and the monitor =)

[Bursar 0]

Gee thanks, that makes me feel a whole lot better!

 

I would imagine that most of it is swap file related. The Windows suggested settings for a swap file with 512MB RAM are min of 768MB, and a max of 1536MB.

 

I'm gonna mess with performance monitor this weekend to see just how much actual RAM is being used. I'll then tweak my swap file settings a bit.

[nagual 0]

i was just kidding man take it easy =)

but obviously something`s wrong

[Seducer 0]

I tried to install the darkstep in my nt4 machine and it works fine....my question is how can i reset it back to the original configuration?