about 5 minutes after bootup the menu at the bottom of the screen and my popup menu no longer work they just disappear. What is wrong????

does anyone know how to fix this ????

change theme and make sure is not a theme specific problem and post.

its not it only happens like 45 secs after startup

does anyone know??

The subject content and the post content doesn't match. First you say litestep shuts down, then you say that only some menus don't work.

You'll need to clarify, whether Litestep itself quits, or whether you are simply having trouble with some modules, and which modules they are.

And since you state that it happens at a consistent time after boot, I would suggest looking at your startup items and possibly run a spy/adware utility.

http://www.sysinternals.com/ntw2k/freeware/autoruns.shtml