I am truly annoyed at vista and litestep. I use Xplorer2, so i have managed to regain certain familiarity with the file management, but the sound/volume control is no longer in systray, and i hate the new volume interface, separate volume per app, no access to bass treble, etc... But in litestep the systray icon does not appear. also, !shutdown just exits litestep, I have to hit ctrl alt del then choose shut down!
I managed to get rid of password log on and 'cancel or allow' and uac permissions, still finding folders with that deny option in security i have to remove... But how do i get rid of the welcom screen for the logon? Why is there no forum expressly for litestep and vista?
There is a thread strictly for Vista64 and LiteStep...you just can't find it. We like to torture people instead.
Right now there are only 8 main categories. How about a nice, high level, easy to find Forum, 'Vista'? I went through each forum and then searched for 'Vista' and found a few posts but all I really saw was people agreeing with me that the !Shutdown does not work and that the systray missing some icons is a problem but in one there was a link to some forum not on this site that talked about a 'workaround' where you went and got some executable from some other shell program and then ran it and then the missing systray things would work.
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I would love to have a Forum strictly devoted to Vista and Litestep.
But there is another thing I have noticed that maybe you have touched on in some other post I have not found... I have 3 HP laptops, all based on nVidia chipsets, all with buttons for volume control and quickplay and whatnot, only the buttons - in XP - only work with explorer as a shell. When I go to Litestep, the buttons stop working - but on one the button still makes noise to indicate it was hit, just never changes the volume or anything.
1...There are known problems with Vista...PERIOD. MS even tells you not to expect applications to work that don't say that they work explicitly. You will notice that we don't even say that LS works with XP.
2...Their is a thread here in the LSBuilds section along with on the LSDev site about problems with Vista.
3...Your button problem has hundreds of threads all over the place. It is not an LS problem at all. The buttons are coded into a driver that only works with Explorer...not our problem...talk to HP. You can work around it by configuring jKey to handle them which is talked about in these forums and the docs for jKey.
Jkey is not the answer,as it is not part of the keyboard. as i said, i tried it and there is no matching code. the quicklaunch keys appear in device manager as a usb hid device between the hid compliant device and the microsoft usb optical mouse. This is clearly a very specific problem related to a group of HP laptops and this specific usb device. I was hoping maybe someone had dealt with it,
I have zero problems with XP, and i have rewritten the same theme and been using the same interface since windows 95. The bang command !Shutdown is broken for Vista. Seems to have been broken for a long time and the only work around is ctrl-alt-del and then choose shutdown AFTER vista goes OMG, your shell just closed - what should i do?
Has anyone even thought about fixing that? I gave up on vista after about 12 hours and then installed xp on the new laptop and it was only about 3 hours of frustration to get all the devices in the device manager taken care of... Now I am back to no quick launch buttons, but at least the systray icons work again...
Sounds like Microsoft broke a lot of things with Vista. Maybe you should contact them and ask them to fix it.
jKey is the answer actually. You can configure it to take inputs from other "keys". I use it on my Nostromo pad even. What you need to do is get the code for the key and throw it into your jKey config. Then you can assign the key to anything you want.
There was a quick fix to the systray icons problem somewhere on these forums. It was to download a program called sharpshellservices.exe and load it, it works pretty well and seemlessly if you put it in the startup programs.