   Bored of XP shell
  I had a look at various replacement desktop shells for XP a few years ago but never really found any I liked. Does anyone have nay recommendations for a good shell? The more eyecandy the better, but I'd still like it to perform well. Also I'd prefer a free one if possible.   
  LiteStep might be a good choice. Clicky!;  I've tried a number of different systems, litestep, windowblinds, etc. They took too much time to figure out and ended up screwing my system over anyway.   ;  Unless I'm being retarded, they won't even tell me what LiteStep is without registering.  And that makes them a failure.CM   ;Quote:Original post by Conner McCloudUnless I'm being retarded, they won't even tell me what LiteStep is without registering.  And that makes them a failure.CMon the front pageQuote:As you can see from the screenshots on this page, LiteStep enables you change the look & feel of your desktop to whatever you want. Get an account today and help yourself to the freedom of LiteStep. Join us and help in the effort! you may now request a "retarded" flag in place of your GDNet+ tag.   ;Astonshell is pretty cool, although unfortunately it isn't free (it is pretty cheap though).  I havn't really played around with any of the free shell replacements out there for a long time, so I can't really recommend any of those.Litestep (linked above) seems popular though, although from what I've heard it can be somewhat tricky to configure.   ;Quote:Original post by capn_midnightQuote:Original post by Conner McCloudUnless I'm being retarded, they won't even tell me what LiteStep is without registering.  And that makes them a failure.CMon the front pageQuote:As you can see from the screenshots on this page, LiteStep enables you change the look & feel of your desktop to whatever you want. Get an account today and help yourself to the freedom of LiteStep. Join us and help in the effort! you may now request a "retarded" flag in place of your GDNet+ tag.That hints at what it does, but that's all.  It could, for instance, be a window manager for a Linux distribution.  Or a Linux distribution itself.  Both of those would provide all the features the homepage says.One screenshot suggests its a Windows 2000 system, but that could be one of the customizations they appear to be advertising.  I can no further suggest why one would pretend to be running Windows 2000 than I could suggest why one would actually listen to Phil Collins.CM   ;  I can't help on the spoogy looking graphics...however, if you wish to digress, try cygwin. It provides a good sh implementation for windows (i.e. it looks a lot like linux). I love it <3Good luck :)   ;Windows Blinds 5This skinThere was another skin that i'm currently using, and its the full vista transparency dealio. Looks damn sweet. When I went looking for the link, it seems M$ got pissy(too much like vista or something to that effect. Nothing was too clear on what happened. The theme is called 'VistaXP' by -kol), and demanded that they remove it. Thus, you can't download the skin anywhere on the web. So...if you want it, PM me. I"m not posting the link here b/c of what happened.   ;Quote:Original post by _SigmaThis skinWHOAH! That looks fricken cool.   