xcal, I have a good question while I have your attention... I have a Viewsonic keyboard with a very nice set of hotkeys running the entire length of the top of it..a nice keyboard. The hotkeys work fine with explorer but with Litestep as the shell none of them work except for one, the refresh hotkey, or reload. the HID service has to be running for it to work at all. You can't program these hotkeys they just work with all the defaults. How do you think I could get that to work with Litestep. ?? man I need sleep too.