OT: Windows Optimization?

AgentZero · #1 November 1st, 2004, 08:53 PM

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For most of the plugins, you just need to get the *.dll file for the plugin, and put it in a plugin directory, called modules

OK, but then what? One module had that actually had installation instructions said open the Setup.rc, and add the line LoadModule "c:\litestep\modulename.dll" then Recycle. Did all this but when I try to load a Theme, it still says I need to install the modules I just supposedly installed. This is the only real problem I've having, everything else is running great.

Will · #2 November 1st, 2004, 09:04 PM

Are you sure it's setup.rc? I'm looking through an older backup I have, and the closest thing I see that would load modules is the theme.rc file. I'd probably be able to help more if I knew the specific module.

AgentZero · #3 November 1st, 2004, 09:10 PM

tasks-0.92b, shortcut2-2.0.2 and hotkey-2.0 are apparently the ones that are lacking. I'll try popping things into theme.rc and see what happens...

Will · #4 November 2nd, 2004, 02:48 AM

Looks like it might be a problem with naming... ie, tasks-0.92b.dll might need to be something along the lines of tasks-0.9.dll, or vice versa. Might want to check that the file names already existing in theme.rc (do a quick Ctrl-F on tasks, shortcut, hotkey, respectively) and see that the names in there match the actual file names of the *.dlls you have installed. If they're different, you probably want to rename the files, since there is a possibility the filename is referenced somewhere else, and you don't want to track down that entry in all the config files

AgentZero · #5 November 3rd, 2004, 09:13 PM

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Will said:
Looks like it might be a problem with naming... ie, tasks-0.92b.dll might need to be something along the lines of tasks-0.9.dll, or vice versa. Might want to check that the file names already existing in theme.rc (do a quick Ctrl-F on tasks, shortcut, hotkey, respectively) and see that the names in there match the actual file names of the *.dlls you have installed. If they're different, you probably want to rename the files, since there is a possibility the filename is referenced somewhere else, and you don't want to track down that entry in all the config files

Thanks. Things seem to be working ok now. Problem was, when I didn't have a module that a theme needed, it brought up a window where you could download the modules and have them automatically installed, but whenever I used it the system would hang, so I was trying to install them manually. Turns out the problem was with Download Accelerator (DAP). Something about it caused the system to freeze, because as soon as I reinstalled it, the modules downloaded and installed fine. I still think there's a problem with Explorer.exe because LiteStep uses it as the File Manager, and whenever I try to use it I get into trouble.
Does anyone know if there's a 3rd party program that can do what explorer.exe does in terms of navigating the file system, without acutually using explorer.exe. Please let me know & then I can finally be (more or less) free of the MicroSoft yoke.

Fyron · #6 November 3rd, 2004, 09:25 PM

There are several out there. One is Total Commander, though I personally do not like it... Google for alternate file managers.

Aiken · #7 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).