Well, the title says most of it. I am running WinXP Home and installed LS to its own user account [ I started a new Admin acct and installed LS from there] any way LS isn't running properly from there, some kind of bad mix of windows and LS. I logged off that acct and logged onto my normal acct and it IS running LS, only I've lost my taskbar and can only get to most of my progs through task mgr and it won't let me switch back to Explorer shell, although it will let me switch back to Exp. shell from the LS user acct. I've tried to uninstall LS but it says I don't have access to uninstall. I've tried this from both user accts and from safe mode, all with no success. I really want to get this set up right, so I hope someone can help me with this, I read through some fo the threads here and on Wincustomize boards and couldn't find any similar problems. Any help will be greatly appreciated.

well from the explorer shell you have two options...either reinstall over the top or delete the folder.

I tried creating a 3rd admin acct and from there I dleted the LS user acct [though I saved the files] Now when I log onto my normal acct it opens with My Documents open but nothing else, no wallpaper, taskbar. I've been able to open Objectdock and some other things form that window. Looks like I may have to do repair reinstall if I can't get things back to normal.

Tried regedit, changing the user's shell to explorer.exe?

Cerbie, what part of the registry do I change? I poked around in there a little last night but didn't want to change anything that might do more damage.

Well, I got everything back. I tried Shellon, but it wasn't much help since there was no shell running on my primary acct. I ended up reinstalling LS on my primary acct and then was able to set it back to explorer shell. I will get back on LS after a couple days vacation. Thanks to all for the help, I'm sure I'll be watching these boards for more tips.

For future reference, HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon\shell
If not set per user, it will be only under HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\etc. instead of current user.
If you search for litestep.exe, it should come up relatively soon, as well.