OT: Windows Optimization?

Aiken · #1 November 4th, 2004, 04:14 AM

Total Commander (shareware) - mega file manager, dual pane.
Servant Salamander (free and shareware) - so-so, dual pane.
FAR (OSS, free) - powerful FM without graphic gui for CLI lovers, dual pane.
Xplorer2 - (shareware) - very good and lightweight FM, dual pane, single pane(explorerish).
Directory Opus (shareware) - very good but heavy (in terms of RAM usage) FM, dual pane, single pane(explorerish).

AgentZero · #2 November 12th, 2004, 11:29 PM

Cool, thanks. I had a couple good days (literally 2) with LiteStep, but now it's behaving poorly as well. We've got a couple Pentium/233MHz's at work and they run WinNT faster than my 2.4GHz at the moment and that just ain't right. I'm convinced that my explorer.exe file is corrupted, but I can't even get a reinstall to work. As soon as I get to the part where Windows is supposed to install, it sits there and does nothing, even though the system hasn't locked up or anything. I'm sitting here writing this after the installer has been telling me that installation will take approximately 51 minutes. Problem is it's been saying that for 4 HOURS! I'm at a loss as to what I can do, since I don't seem to be able to boot from my Windows install CD. Any tips? Or if someone has an uncorrupted explorer.exe file, can I have it?

Suicide Junkie · #3 November 13th, 2004, 12:51 AM

Check your BIOS, and make sure that you've got the boot sequence set to a logical order. (Floppy, CD then HDD)

AgentZero · #4 November 13th, 2004, 09:50 AM

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Suicide Junkie said:
Check your BIOS, and make sure that you've got the boot sequence set to a logical order. (Floppy, CD then HDD)

Yep. Did that, still won't boot. I've got it set to CD, HDD then Floppy, since I don't think I'll ever be booting from a floppy.

Aiken · #5 November 13th, 2004, 09:02 AM

Did you set up Litestep to be a primary shell? Because it can run together with explorer, but in this case you'll have very slow system.
Grab some lightweight theme, default Austerity theme consumes quite a lot of resources.

Personal opinion: I stopped using LS 2 years ago, because I had not time to tweak it and swithched to geoshell, and then to bb4win (bbLean)