I'm still using explorer as my shell but I have litestep running over top of it for VWM, geekamp, rainmeter, and a number of other modules. My problem is that everything I make using shortcut2.dll shows up in the taskbar for explorer. I use that module for all my graphics so is there another module I could use or some way I can fix this problem?

for shortcut2 to disappear from the task manager/taskbar you'll probably need to load a desktop module before you load shortcut2... which is most likely incompatible with explorer... try it and post back here with the results.

check it out: http://joeblade.com/litestep/tutorials/ls-ex.php

try to use no caption for the shortcut, that worked with layercut.

instead of

*Shortcut "File Manager" 100 100 ...

use

*Shortcut "" 100 100 ...

I loaded up jdesk.dll as the first module in the loadlist and it got rid of the shortcuts in the taskbar. I just tried it a few minutes ago but there are no appearent incompatibilities yet. I assume that if it was going to have a problem, it would have crashed on recycle.

Thanks

just out of curiousity... why don't you just load LS as only shell?