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Tired of Windows?

Want more control over the look & feel of your system?

Come Out of your shell, and over to LiteStep!

LiteStep is a shell replacement for explorer.exe. What it does is replaces your current user interface with a much more stable, customizable, and less resource heavy interface. With this interface you can customize almost every aspect of your desktop and create a look and feel that is most comfortable to you as well as is best suited to your needs. I have made the switch and have no intentions on ever going back.

Here is an image of my current desktop running LiteStep.

(Click on Image for larger view)

A word of warning, LiteStep is NOT a Plug & Play application, meaning that once you install it you will have to familiarize yourself with the software and spend some time configuring it to fit your needs. While this can be a little time consuming, I guarantee it will be time well spent. To download LiteStep and any of it's many themes, check out these sites;

Other Shell Replacements...

*** Dimension ***

I have to give Dimension a big Honorable Mention. This is the shell to fear! It is currently in the very early development stages, but the results so far are astounding. Dimension is the first ever 3D GUI for Windows 9x and NT. It utilizes SGI's OpenGL technology to create a 3 Dimensional Desktop. It is definitely worth checking out.

E-Sense

E-Sense is an Enlightenment type shell replacement for Windows. They have just release Beta v.01 that will only work on Windows NT. This shell replacement has a lot of cool features, and works pretty good in NT. I think we will be seeing good things from these guys. Check it out for yourself:

 

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