Deleted litestep, default windows taskbar is gone, cannot right click on desktop. Thread last updated on 2008-04-03 20:21:36

Posted by member 400994 on 2008-04-03 13:18:52

Hello, I recently installed litestep and decided I didn't need it. I couldn't find the uninstall so I deleted the folder and now after restarting my computer my windows taskbar is gone and I cannot right click on my desktop. Going into control panel to try to change themes doesn't work either. Can someone help me out with a fix?

Posted by member 378340 on 2008-04-03 13:34:05 link

Reinstall litestep, then Uninstall it properly. windows cannot load the shell, since you deleted it. you cannot just delete the folder. if you must, you should first use the "set explorer as shell" icon on your desktop to disassociate it with the shell.

or, if you feel up to editing the registry (though i highly recommend the above method), you can see this thread on changing the shell, though it might be difficult since the thread is how to set litestep as shell, not the other way around :).

Posted by member 1 on 2008-04-03 13:37:06 link

The uninstall doesn't set the shell back either. You just need the SetShell utility to set it back to Explorer. Otherwise you can go through the steps outlined in the docs for going back to explorer.

http://lsdocs.shellfront.org

Posted by member 378340 on 2008-04-03 13:39:42 link

actually, you can download the setshell utility here. that should make it easy.

Posted by member 378340 on 2008-04-03 15:22:16 link

nevermind. the link doesn't work.

Posted by member 400994 on 2008-04-03 20:21:36 link

Thanks guys. I should of known better then to delete the program files without uninstalling.