Please help =) I have no user interface at all.... Oh god Thread last updated on 2003-06-27 11:02:22

Posted by member 42532 on 2003-06-15 20:33:40

Well here's how it happened...
I download Litestep...everything works just fine. I'm installing themes and seeing which one I like best. Then, I choose LiteStepThemeChanger to change and the user interface gets erased, only the background is there. I click CTRL ALT DEL to see if anything is running. Nope. So I decided to uninstall LiteStep, through CTRL ALT DEL options. Uninstalls. I restart. Go into my old explorer. Nothing is their, just the background. I accessed NETSCAPE through CTRL ALT DEL. Can someone please help me get my theme back?

Posted by member 1 on 2003-06-15 20:57:07 link

There is no magical uninstall for LS like you describe, you need to actually edit your registry to pull it out. To fix your LiteStep theme you will need to go into the LiteStep Theme Changer and edit the properties for your theme. You will find the step.rc under a different name. Now if you would have read the 20 other forum posts on this you could have found the answer on your own.

Posted by member 42532 on 2003-06-15 21:13:41 link

I ran uninstall.exe from the litestep directory and it told me it was set back to explorer as the shell. I couldn't fix the LiteStep theme because there was nothing to click. Just a background with no options. I did read a few other forum posts. Now I jsut wanna know how to get my start button etc back on explorer shell.

Posted by member 1 on 2003-06-16 00:09:21 link

http://lsdocs.shellfront.org/install.php

Do the install instructions for 2K backwards and replace LiteStep with the full path to your explorer.exe and you should be golden.

Posted by member 45351 on 2003-06-26 16:56:13 link

I had the same problem - fortunately my keyboard has short cut key to Internet Explorer so was able to find the uninstall in the litestep directory and have managed to get back good old Microssft desktop. As for Litestep - straight in the bin!! What a dangerous program!!

Posted by member 1 on 2003-06-26 17:14:45 link

There are about 40 or 50 threads on this problem. If you can't read through the site to find them then we can't help you.

Posted by member 1783 on 2003-06-27 03:11:36 link

aaarrgghhh :@
can't that f****n' buggy lsts be annihilated off this planet!!??? and replaced with the fixed version??? how do n00bs still get hold of the old version?
i declare a war against the buggy lsts and cry that everyone, who knows where to get it, would notify the webmasters of those sites to update that... that.. evil thing!!

ok, actually lsts is a really great program, but this problem is getting so old and nothing (except the release of a fixed version) has been done to eliminate it, so let's stop sharing that bug. let us give n00bs a nice non-buggy lsts instead :)

Posted by member 1316 on 2003-06-27 08:16:59 link

I'm sure other people have requested it, but I just sent omar an e-mail requesting he put out a new version of his installer, with the fixed lsts included.

Posted by member 1783 on 2003-06-27 11:02:22 link

how nice of you :)