Does any one have any sugestions for makeing litestep as lite as posible... I have a p2 266 laptop /w 96 mb of ram running windows 2000. I have striped my theam of most components... but it still seems slugish... any ideas?

-Sid

do you have something dynamic running?
what else do you have running on your system with LS?
are you running windowblinds or some other enhancement utility?

The problem comes from windows 2000 !!!
On a machine like this, you should switch back to the awfull (once you know 2000) Win98SE.

If you absolutely need Win2K, change of computer. There's not enought RAM (at least 256Mb) AND your cpu is too slow (at least 500Mhz)

My parents run Win2K on a AMD 300 w/ 128M RAM. Then again...they aren't trying to do anything with it. :)

i have the system tweaked to shit, all services are stop ect. I have my clock/ ram/ cpu utilization in a lable on the desktop, their is a systray, !command box, and VWM (4 desktops) and the start menu style tree on right click. BTW Its a laptop, and i would love a new one but i cant afford it at the moment.

Here is a copy of the theme and config files for it...
http://www.1stleg.com/DeepThoughts_ReMIX.rar

Let me know if im missing something that will cut down on the resources.

Thanks for the help
-Sid

ohh one more thing, i will never go back to winblows 98, i like haveing a system that is somewhat reliable.

If you want task manager to report as little memory usage as possible you should probably remove LSUseSystemDDE, NetLoadModule, and most label [vars] such as [cpu] as they map DLLs into litestep's address space (in case that concerns you). You could of course just completely remove label. Do the same with all modules using transparency or animations. And remove popup2. Also remove all modules that use system wide hooks as they definitely won't make your system faster.
You could just comment out all modules and then figure out each module's memory usage by adding them one by one.

The "lightest" LiteStep is of course just a blank step.rc (ie. with no modules).

use purels, jdesk, jkey, tasks, bangvwm, systray, popup r9.

Do not use bitmaps in the modules. Do not specify a background image. Do not use icons in popup.

But that isn't really answering your question on what you could do to modify your current theme. But ilmcuts answered that already. :)

I think W2K is quite stable and nice. I don't know about the system recquirements as I've always invested on computer memory over processing power, but as it seems now, I'd never ever switch back to W98.

Concider buying more RAM to the laptop, if that is not impossible.

With 128MB RAM, the system will do much better.
A K6-2 300 is fine...96MB RAM is not. 128MB would be great if you can do it.

I'm running win2k on an AMD K6 266 with 64 megs of ram.
Running newest build of litestep, with various themes and lots of mods.
I won't pretend it's fast but it's servicable. And that includes working in graphics programs like Corel.