Which OS are you running it on? I'll check your control panel link...

I have the same theme and the same problem. It happens when I want to do anything that requires and exploration of of the computer or similar to the function of explorer.exe. I looked in the step.rc and appears that the references are still pointing to explorer.exe. It seems that it needs to point to the subsitute shell file, but I could find no reference to what that file should be. I would also like to know about this as i would like to get this to work as it seems much more powerful than the standard windows GUI. I use windows2000.....

Try this:

replace the entire "/root ..." string with $Controls$

Not guaranteed to work, but it should if the build supplied with the theme is a recent one.

That is; look for the line in the step.rc that activates the control panel.
It will contain that "/root" string. Then replace the string with $controls$.

$Controls$ is a built in variable in Litestep that should activate your control panel. Check the Litestep documentation that comes with Litestep for a full list of variable. They can come in very handy sometimes.

In fact (and seeing as I'm bored herre is a list of the variables found in recent builds of Litestep. They are very handy rather than trying to use full paths for these items. Sorry if the formatting of the following text is a bit off.

$LitestepDir$
References the directory where the LiteStep executable is found.

$BitBucket$
References the "Recycle Bin", which is normally found on the Explore Desktop.

$Controls$
References the "Control Panel", which is normally in "My Computer"

$Cookies$
References the directory where your Internet Explorer cookies are stored.

$Desktop$
References the directory in which your files on your Windows 95/98Phar0e Explorer Desktop are stored.

$DesktopDir$
References the directory in which the current user's files on the Windows 95/98Phar0e Explorer Desktop icons are stored, if multiple users are configured.

$Dialup$
References the Dial-Up Networking/Connections folder that is found in your Windows 95/98Phar0e My Computer.

$Documents$
References the directory named "My Documents" on your Hard Drive.

$Drives$
References the "My Computer" folder that is found on your Explorer Desktop.

$Favorites$
References the folder that contains your Internet Explorer Favorites.

$Fonts$
References the folder that contains all of the Fonts installed in Windows.

$History$
References the folder containing your Internet Explorer History.

$InternetCache$
References the folder that contains all of your Temporary Internet Files.

$NetHood$
References the "My Network Places" in Windows 2000.

$Network$
References the Network Neighborhood folder found on the Explorer Desktop.

$Printers$
References the Printers folder that is found in both your "Control Panel" and "My Computer"

$Programs$
References the Programs directory inside the Start Menu. (For those using NT/2K, it is the current user's Programs directory.)

$Recent$
References the Recent Documents directory which is comonly found in the Start Menu.

$Scheduled$
References the folder that contains Scheduled Tasks used by the Windows Task Scheduler.

$SendTo$
References the "Send To" folder that is found in right-click context menus.

$StartMenu$
References the Start Menu folder, not to be confused with $Programs$. For NT/2k, it is the current user's Start Menu directory.

$StartUp$
References that StartUp folder in your $Programs$, this is the directory in your Start Menu that auto-runs programs at startup.

$Templates$
References the Templates folder.

$Username$
References the current username.

$AdminTools$
References the Administrative Tools folder in Windows NT/2K via the Windows Explorer interface.

Note: This does not work when used in a Popup, please use $AdminToolsDir$ instead.

$AdminToolsDir$
References the Administrative Tools directory in Windows NT/2K.

$CommonDesktopDir$
References the Desktop folder that is shared with all users in Windows NT/2K.

$CommonDocuments$
References the My Documents directory that is shared with all users in Windows NT/2K.

$CommonFavorites$
References the Internet Explorer Favorites folder shared with all users in Windows NT/2K.

$CommonPrograms$
References the Programs directory in the Start Menu shared with all users in Windows NT/2K.

$CommonStartMenu$
References the Start Menu shared with all users in Windows NT/2K.

$CommonStartUp$
References the Start Up folder in the Start Menu that auto-runs programs at startup for all users.

$CommonAdminToolsDir$
References the Admin Tools for All Users for Windows NT/2K.

$NetworkAndDialup$
References the Network and Dialup folder for Windows 2K.

$UserName$
References the user that has logged into the system


If your still awake, I hope that helps a bit. If its confusing, keep the questions coming.

Uhh, Ignore the "Phar0e" yelo type stuff. I'm not sure what that is....

Phil....it's when you type / m e without the spaces....then you get Jafo insted of / m e....

and 'insted' instead of 'instead'.....

_eh_hem....




instead.

*Popup "CONTROL PANEL" explorer /root,,::{20D04FE0-3AEA-1069-A2D8-08002B30309D}\::{21EC2020-3AEA-1069-A2DD-08002B30309D}


This is my entry....and it works in 2K.....

oh well, can't beat the master...

I beat you, Dork....sorry to rain on your parade...

got ya that time, tee hee....

Well It looks as if there has been some talk about my original problem. What was happeneing was that all the file paths in the step.rc were setup to C;\windows. Unfortunatly I am running 2000 and the folder for that is C:\WINNT. So i went in and replaced all the c:\windows with c:\winnt. To do this you use the replace tool in notpad. That had taken care of all the problems I was having.