Litestep and XP Explorer.exe

[R. L.]

I have been on and off using Litestep since I was with 98 and
now with XP. Today I looked at the taskmanager in XP and
noticed that Litestep.exe was using only about 19-27 mb (with
virtual desktop capacity and system information meter on) and
then I switeched to the explorer.exe shell and saw it using
35-45mb!!!!! I knew Litestep is lite but didn't know that it
was THAT lite!!! My goodness!!










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[Semolina Pilchard]

I have been on and off using Litestep since I was with 98 and
now with XP. Today I looked at the taskmanager in XP and
noticed that Litestep.exe was using only about 19-27 mb (with
virtual desktop capacity and system information meter on) and
then I switeched to the explorer.exe shell and saw it using
35-45mb!!!!! I knew Litestep is lite but didn't know that it
was THAT lite!!! My goodness!!

12-14 Mb for me, with VWM, rainmeter and a speedbar thingie. That's
using Inhaler's "Slickest" theme. It may not be as glitzy as some but
it's very economical for a bar theme. Completely bug-free, too.

I use Fabertoys in dependency mode to check memory useage. You can
see at a glance where memory's going and which unneeded modules you
can strip out.

http://www.faberbox.com/fabertoys.asp

 

[wald]

12-14 Mb for me, with VWM, rainmeter and a speedbar thingie.
That's using Inhaler's "Slickest" theme. It may not be as
glitzy as some but it's very economical for a bar theme.

Hate to make you guys jealous, but I've currently got Litestep
running at about 6MB of RAM It's a home-brewn theme with
RabidVWM, Rainmeter, vtray, lsxcommand, taskbar3, and the usual
hotkey and desktop modules.

Honesty first: I did reboot about an hour ago.

Completely bug-free, too.
Confirmed!

I use Fabertoys in dependency mode to check memory useage. You
can see at a glance where memory's going and which unneeded
modules you can strip out.

http://www.faberbox.com/fabertoys.asp

Nice, thanks for the tip.

Regards,
Wald

 

[Semolina Pilchard]

Hate to make you guys jealous, but I've currently got Litestep
running at about 6MB of RAM

I suppose you realise this means war ;-)

 

[wald]

I suppose you realise this means war ;-)

*ducks*

;-)

 

[Roger Johansson]

*ducks*

If you want to see some really nice desktop screenshots
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/power-pro/

And more screenshots in the files area
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/power-pro/files/Picture_gallery/

They have a lot more advanced desktops than everything mentioned in this
thread and the desktops thread earlier.

You need yahoo membership in the powerpro group to see this but it is
worth taking a few seconds to register to see how the real shell experts
have arranged their desktops. Set your membership to "no email" to avoid
getting messages from the mailing list.

When I used litestep and powerpro these programs used something like
700kB each, instead of explorer which used 3-4 MB of the 64 MB I had in
that computer.

 

[J44xm]

["R. L."; Tue, 03 Aug 2004 04:57:27 GMT]

I knew Litestep is lite but didn't know that it was THAT lite!!!

Pretty cool. I used Litestep for a month or two, but it was just "too
much" for me, if you get my drift. Way too much work to get it like I
wanted it.

 

[Chaos Master]

Chaos happened and R. L. said:

I have been on and off using Litestep since I was with 98 and
now with XP. Today I looked at the taskmanager in XP and
noticed that Litestep.exe was using only about 19-27 mb (with
virtual desktop capacity and system information meter on) and
then I switeched to the explorer.exe shell and saw it using
35-45mb!!!!! I knew Litestep is lite but didn't know that it
was THAT lite!!! My goodness!!

I used LiteStep for a while. Tried BlackBox for Windows but it caused blue
screens for me. :/

My favorite theme was 'lcde' (looks like the CDE desktop from Sun Solaris)
from http://www.litestep.net , but the theme was buggy (i.e. it caused a
resources leak). Also, I had a nice XP-ish theme.

LiteStep is still the best shell out here. The other shells aren't good
enough.

[]s

 

[J. S. Pack]

Chaos happened and R. L. said:

I have been on and off using Litestep since I was with 98 and
now with XP. Today I looked at the taskmanager in XP and
noticed that Litestep.exe was using only about 19-27 mb (with
virtual desktop capacity and system information meter on) and
then I switeched to the explorer.exe shell and saw it using
35-45mb!!!!! I knew Litestep is lite but didn't know that it
was THAT lite!!! My goodness!!

I used LiteStep for a while. Tried BlackBox for Windows but it caused blue
screens for me. :/

My favorite theme was 'lcde' (looks like the CDE desktop from Sun Solaris)
from http://www.litestep.net , but the theme was buggy (i.e. it caused a
resources leak). Also, I had a nice XP-ish theme.

LiteStep is still the best shell out here. The other shells aren't good
enough.

[]s

A lot of people are running blackbox just fine. I run bblean and it's
totally stable. If you like a minimal look, it's just the thing, too.

 

[Semolina Pilchard]

LiteStep is still the best shell out here. The other shells aren't good
enough.

[]s

A lot of people are running blackbox just fine. I run bblean and it's
totally stable. If you like a minimal look, it's just the thing, too.

I agree. Had a fairly lengthy run through the various shells in the
last week or two and found several very useable, including BlackBox.
Shell choice depends on how you want to work, I think.

Because I've been trying several shells I decided I needed a shell
switcher and after trying a few I settled on ShellOn V3
http://www.dx13.co.uk/programs/index.html

It's beta but I've found it to be completely stable on my XP machine.
It's easy to set up, too.