I'm getting Litestep to work fine on Windows Vista Home Premium using the complex simplicity theme and some other themes. But I have a laptop with certain proprietary programs that seem to be linked to the explorer.exe startup (battery display, FN keys, etc.)

I was wondering how I go about finding which programs startup with explorer.exe and how it is that I manually configure them to startup naturally (msconfig?)

I'm also having a problem with the volume slider at the base of my laptop, neither vbang nor lsslider work and I suspect this is because of a completely different sort of volume mixer setup in vista as compared to other versions of windows? Any help in this area?