Need Technical Help

[HipposPottamus]

Alright, I need some serious help. (Involves LiteStep)

I got Windows XP for christmas this year, but while using Windows98, I used LiteStep.

Before I installed XP, I went in and fixed all the system.ini command lines to boot into explorer.exe (current shell line, oldshell line). I booted in, worked fine, so I installed XP.

Installation goes smooth, but when I boot up into XP, it boots up into LiteStep and a theme I haven't used in 4 months.

I go to system.ini, but now XP has it all different and I have no idea how to change what I boot up into (would like to boot back into explorer.)

So, what I'm getting at is, does anyone know where the command line is to fix this? I really need some help and have tryed everything except actually calling microsoft (don't feel like doing this, yet.) So, any help can be used.

(I don't have a problem uninstalling XP and going back to 98 to fix the problem, then reinstalling XP, if it involves that)

[distemper]

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\Current Version\Winlogon>shell

change that value from litestep.exe to "c:\windows\explorer.exe" (without the quotes) . That should work, maybe. If it loads up but doesnt wanna load a shell, ctrl+alt+del and run>explorer to load it.

Also, you probably know this but you can just ctrl+alt+del while on litestep, close litestep.exe, and run>explorer to load the windows explorer shell.

[HipposPottamus]

I don't think the switching the regedit worked, but I didn't know about the explorer thing.


The explorer thing works, and I guess I can live with that, so THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR YOUR HELP!!!

[distemper]

now that you have your explorer shell up and working, you may wanna consider uninstalling litestep and installing LSDistro (what I use). Supports XP, and has a nice utility that lets you switch themes and switch the boot theme. (probably why I havent bothered to find out where to change that, i'm sure you also have to edit some text on some ini file somewhere).

Anyway, later.