ctrl+alt+f1 - wow, didnt know that

well, i still dont really get why you are reinstalling litestep to change themes ... u always have the possibility to start the task manager vie ctrl+shift+esc from where u can start explorer and change the used theme in themeselect.rc as i mentioned above!

if that really does not work then u sure have some nasty stuff going on there

what do u mean by "I couldn't go to task manager and set austerity as my default theme as it didn't show in the task manager." anyway? if litestep.exe doesnt show up as a process, its most likely crashed due to some faulty module config and/or u didnt allow it to load needed modules from the net ... hmmmmm