OT: Windows Optimization?

Will · #1 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 · #2 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 · #3 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 · #4 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 · #5 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 · #6 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 · #7 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?