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Is LiteStep FASTER than Explorer?? Thread last updated on 2006-08-20 00:07:20

Posted by member 62968 on 2006-08-18 14:02:08

I want to try LiteStep on my XP box (Athlon 2700+ 1.5 G of RAM), not because I'm 1337 (well, I know I am), but because I want to squeeze more performance outta that sucker.

Questions: Is LiteStep FASTER. Does it have a smaller memory FOOTPRINT than explorer? Are there compatibility issues with apps??

Posted by member 1885 on 2006-08-18 15:10:58 link

Is LiteStep FASTER.

Depends on the theme.

Does it have a smaller memory FOOTPRINT

Depends on the theme.

Are there compatibility issues with apps??

Hardly any, except for some stuff that requires the Explorer shell to work properly (sometimes the case with driver software that has stuff running in the systray). I also think IconPackager is known to be incompatible.

Posted by member 248213 on 2006-08-19 05:32:13 link

Fullscreen apps sometimes wigout alwaysontop stuff too.

Posted by member 1885 on 2006-08-19 17:46:52 link

Yes, true. Forgot about that.

Posted by member 248213 on 2006-08-19 22:59:56 link

Yeah its weird, you'd think having an app go fullscreen would send some message to windows, and the LS would be able to get that message easily too.

but I am no coder so ;)

Posted by member 212670 on 2006-08-19 23:39:30 link

As much as I've heard about this problem, I've never actually had it happen before.

Posted by member 219700 on 2006-08-20 00:07:19 link

I only had it happen with PowerDVD actually. But I've also had a problem with hotspots and RTS games. And it drives me MAAAAAAD.