Litestep: No Desktop icons after uninstallation

bad link.

Did you use the setshell utility on the desktop to switch back to explorer before uninstalling litestep?

Yes.

P.S. It's not bad link, I think that hotlinking is not allowed. Try to download image with some Download manager...

no, not working, just mail it to me or upload it to one of the million other image upload sites.

There is nothing much to see, Litestep wallpaper and Explorer Start menu, nothing more.

I had the same problem. What you need to do is the following:


1.Locate your internet browser
1.Download Litestep again
2. In the litestep directory or on the desktop find the explorer shell icon (set shell as explorer)
3.Double click it
4.done!!

The reason you are stuck is because you uninstalled without setting your shell back to anything!

I have set explorer as shell. That is the problem. I do everything by The Book, but something is wrong with Litestep or with themes. Can themes make mistake like this?

Give me a screenshot of what you have now/|

The same thing

try'd right kilckin on the desktop and select show desktop icons?
just a stupid guess

There is no right click. Nothing happend when I click on RMB. There is no menu.

Are you sure that you have explorer set as shell properly.
If you have then un-install litestep

run the task manager (ctrl + shift + esc) and see if explorer is running.

If its not, you need to set it as shell properly.

I suggest installing litestep, reboot, set explorer as shell, reboot. uninstall litestep, reboot.

rebooty shaker

agree with fractal.design. I mentioned the same thing above but without the reboots

I have reboot each time when he asked me...

Explorer is running:

hmmm, mental!

can you please post your reg keys for:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\IniFileMapping\system.ini\boot\

and

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon\

just the "shell" strings in each would be great thanks ;)

Litestep messes with the registry strings. If you have a backup then you can replace the .reg files with originals.

1) USR:Software\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon

2) C:\WINDOWS\explorer.exe

You won't believe me, but I have try everything, everything. The last what I've done, I installed Smart Desktop, and my icons are back, but If I click on Show Desktop, icons desapear. One more click on Show Desktop and icons are back. That's OK, but each time I reset my PC, I need to install Smart Desktop...

I didn't make any backup of registry...

install another shell like bblean and switch to explorershell

I have try: bblean, Bluebox, BLUEBERRY 3D-DESKTOP, DesktopLite, ROS Explorer...

And always the same

hmmm, maybe delete the desktopprocess from HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\
Explorer

?

thats the last thing I can think of...

Maybe tell us more about your system, OS, modifications etc

Try searching the registry for any strings related to litestep, once youve found them delete them

Also try popping your hard disk into anothe pc and replace the shell32.dll file.

adz, why pop into another? not heard of replacer?

but why replace shell32.dll anyway?

agreed f.design. dont fiddle with your shell32.dll.

I've try with Desktop Process, No Desktop, No Active Desktop... Nothing didn't help!

I think, I need to reinstall my system, but am sorry, this installation is almost 3 years old! And work perfectly until Litestep. F**k it, I should restart my pc and boot Linux, if I wanna something diferent, but no, I wanna Litestep and look what I have now...

P.S. I'm not mad on Litestep authors, I'm just mad on myself...

ugh man, this is getting on my nerves.

explorer is running,
but there is no desktop... !?!?!?!

ok, run "msconfig"
go to the startup tab,
disable all the programs,
reboot.

are you admin?

erm... what else... dunno...
I'll post this on LSML and see if anyone can figure it out ;)

Some replies:
"ehm... system restore point"

heh
and

"He has explorer running but has no right click on the desktop. Seems like
either Litestep is still running or something else is creating a window
over the desktop (another shell replcement or something) or something
blocks the loading of the desktop part of explorer.

Is his taskbar and start menu
operational ? (I'm guessing yes cause I see a taskbar item) If not
something might
be
blocking explorer (slow network or a bug in an added component). If
not then there is probably something creating a window that huggs the
desktop. He can identify creator of the window using ProceXP or Spy++."

maybe you have installed too much shells before and now youre pc is just fucked up

/me votes for system restore point! :)

...boot into save mode and switch back to a date before you installed litestep...don't reinstall cause of this

I want him to fix it.
This might be helpfull for future issues.

ipejasinovic: your not on vista are you?
use ProceXP or Spy++ to figure out what window your desktop belongs to.

I don't have nothing suspicious in procesess. I have try some windows analyser and he show me something interesting, I will post images later.

I have WinXP with SP2.

This is how it looks without Icons, Window Analyser has detected only one thing, notext, as you see on picture:


After installing SmartDeskop, the icons are back, but the problem is Show Desktop, after click, icons desapear again. When icons are on desktop, Window Analyser has detected three things:


Spy++ show me that desktop process is running but is hidden and can't be highlighted. What hide him, I really dont know...


Active processes on my pc are here:


Here is startup log from Spybot - S&D, maybe something missing:

I have make little program for showing desktop, if someone need, here it is with source:
This will stay until next system reinstall. System restore I've disabled, because this is an old pc and have only 37GB HDD, so each byte is very important...

next solution:
i have programms running like Tune Up Utilities and so on; i hope you know what i mean

these progs clean up my registry in the background and my harddrives and delete "useless" files , but they also influence correct Working with Shell Replacements
so you should stop or deinstall progs like that

1)Start Regedit
2)Go to HKey_Current_User \ Software\ Microsoft \Windows \ Current Version \ Policies \ Explorer
3)Check the right panel for DWORD value "NoDesktop"
4)Give it a value of 0, or delete it
5)Reboot the computer

Voila

I was just having the same problem. Sys restore fixed it.