There are many threads saying that to change icons in Windows XP is needed to hack shell32.dll and that Litestep has nothing to do with that.

This is not true!!!!

In Aston Shell you can change every icons using IconPackager and show them in Explorer windows and dialogs, but you have to setup Aston DDE Setup (in ShellSwaper) this way: uncheck "Don't open Explorer windows in the Aston process" and "Create a process for each Explorer window"

If you don't do this Aston shows icons just like Litestep, only some change but if you do it i'll work.

What we need to make icons change in Litestep is do the same configuration on Litestep, just like in Aston.

The bad thing is that i don't know how to make this, if some Litestep guru know how to do that we will have nice Explorer icons on Litestep.

Hrmm...interesting...from what I'd heard this problem wasn't DDE related though. Has anyone with 24.7b3 tried using Iconpackager with UseSystemDDE turned on? It also sounds like maybe Aston is running explorer as a shell concurrently and hiding it? Maybe?

No Aston fully replaces Explorer it must be something related to that settings.

Also where do you get Litestep 0.24.7(beta)?

Only a few chosen people know the secret litestep .24.7 location.

secret location? it's been posted everywhere

I'm using Litestep 0.24.7 beta3 with LSUseSystemDDE but nothing changed (well the Antivir tray icon now appears) the Iconpackager icons are still missing.
Also here is the Litestep 0.24.7 documentation (if there is any)?

secret?? really?? how come? i have tried it. did i hack into somewhere? *blush*

lol@ Mr_Goat ;) where did you here that .7 is not available to the public?

I was being sarcastic, its in tons of the sticky threads :-P

oh, sry *blush again* :D

well, plus omar recently released a new version of his installer with...you guessed! 24.7 included!! of course, since it's also on the front page, if you're reading this, you should have already seen the news.

I've found something intresting... when you use litestep and you use old style login screen in Windows XP, when you call the shutdown dialog the buttons on this dialog aren't skinned (they use the old windows style) but you can fix this, to do so create a litestep.exe.manifest file in litestep.exe directory.

If you know what a manisfest file is then you know what to do, but if you don't try find a .manifest file like C:\WINDOWS\System32\cdplayer.exe.manifest, copy it to litestep.exe folder and rename it to litestep.exe.manifest

This should fix the unskinned shutdown dialog but still doesn't fix the dammed icon problem...

Also this is only for Windows XP and i don't know if there is some kind of side effects, because sometimes when you use this technique to skin some applications that doesn't use Windows XP skins they go nuts or simply stop working at all, but until now there was no problem ^_^