I've been tinkering around in litestep lately since finding it a few months ago and find there are some things that I'd prefer to do in explorer then in litestep and vice versa. Now I seen on a pic on the website that somebody shortcuts to make explorer their shell and one for making litestep their shell. If anyone could be so kind to inform me on how to make such changes even if it as simple as a shortcut to the exe.

Check out the default theme (austerity). It has desktoop icons that do this. Look at how they do it.

If you use Austerity, look in \LiteStep\utilities for Setshell.exe and Setshell.txt.