phil299

I guess that specific was not bills idea. However what was bills idea was to use a monopolistic business model to ring every last drop of money out of a concept that is well out of date..eg a operating system you have to pay for. To do this he has fought almost every countries laws till the issue in hand no longer matters and M$ wins by default. Or he has used dubious business practice to force competitors out of the market. This sort of detail eg the wav files generated with cracked software, is symptomatic of m$ as a whole. Can you see where the five year development of vista went when you look at the finished product? Bill has left the ship now anyway, as from now on, it is a inevitable downhill slide for m$.

lol... hasn't changed for a year at least I will give that a go cheers

intresting thread The thing is that I know about the file manager/shell issue with explorer.exe and as I said I was not looking to remove it as I have experienced issues doing that wth existing set ups but I have found litestep to be stable and quicker than explorer.... so wanted to intergrate litestep into an unattended disc useing nlite which is how I came to post the request in the first place. My attempts at making an addon for it fail to opperate silently and also have caused a crash during the registering components stage of the install. No one on the thread you posted suggested making an addon for litestep would be an issue they were all banging on about removeing explorer which though a lovely idea has as I said issue's...all I wanted to do was intergrate litestep into the install...it can be set as the default shell after the last reboot... thats not a problem.(I can now see more issues with setting it as active during setup) So I guess I need a litestep addon that installs the shell, but does not change the shell... leaving explorer set so that it can be reset to litestep after last reboot.

Right My plan was to intergrate it into an unattended disc and to be the default shell on first boot so I guess active..what I wasn't planning to do was remove explore.exe as frankly its a bit risky and I would expect problems. A reg tweak will sort out the active state but I just can't get the installer to go silent and unattened

I am glad its not me being dumb (quite possible) I have tried quite a few ways but always it fails. So does this mean give up or is there any light at the end of the tunnel?

Really having trouble making this go silent any help at all would be good