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Member since April 14, 2001

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    Xion Zee

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  1. Review - POPFile for Windows

    0.18.0 (Feb 20, 2003)

    Teddy

  2. Review - IrfanView

    3.60 (Dec 1, 2001)

    free & under constant development & simply the best

  3. Review - WinHex

    9.95 Beta (Sep 7, 2001)

    best hex editor you can get

  4. Review - PowerStrip

    3.0 (Jul 29, 2001)

    If 2.7x worked for you, you probably won't need 3.0, but Powerstrip hasn't been beaten by any other utility yet...

  5. Review - Scope

    2.0 Beta 3 (Jul 27, 2001)

    Scope 2.0 final. Good work, Fahim. Nothing new, yet a few bugfixes. I didn't notice any changes since it never crashed on me, but a few others seemed to have had problems. It's not my default browser right now (I'm not online that often anymore), so I probably haven't used Beta 3 enough to encounter any bugs; but it's still a great browser. You can find 2.0 final on Fahim's website.

  6. Comment - Stardock Offers Alternatives in OEM Desktop Struggle

    2.0 Beta 3 (Aug 12, 2001 - 1:47 PM)

    yes, development did slow down for a while, but now the dev team is up and working again. they're busy coding .25, aka Phoenix. LiteStep definitely is alive, there are still some days when you get 30+ messages on the mailing list. the latest (and all others since april or may) .24.6 beta build is very stable, plus there's some module coding going on. and the community is bigger than ever (and still growing)... it's quite the opposite of a dead project. i agree, tho, that it's not ready for mainstream use, and it probably will never be. if you want to offer maximum customization you can't easily make it a mainstream product that any novice could use (no offense).
    you said that Explorer was still loaded when using IE or My Computer. well, that's not exactly true. for IE, the explorer *shell* is not loaded at all, neither the file browser (as far as i can tell). when using "my computer", the *file browser* explorer is started. and that one is NOT a resource hog like the *shell* explorer and it's NOT loaded permanently. so you DO save some memory, though that shouldn't matter with 128+ MBs of RAM that's usual nowadays.
    DesktopX is nive, though to anyone that wants to invest some time i'd still recommend LiteStep. (but hey you can't argue about taste)
    check out www.ls2k.org or www.shellfront.org, since litestep.net is down and litestep.com is in the middle of a general re-coding.

  7. Comment - Stardock Offers Alternatives in OEM Desktop Struggle

    2.0 Beta 3 (Aug 12, 2001 - 6:21 AM)

    neither one. LiteStep is a shell replacement. the "explorer" i mean is the one that gives you the taskbar, start menu, systray, desktop icons... LS replaces all of that. you can customize every single detail. the problem is, though, that you actually HAVE to configure every detail... check out screenshots.jalist.com :) a few examples are given there. LS is not for the novice windows user (though i don't expect to find them at betanews anyways) and you NEED to learn how to configure it. you can't just set it up in ten minutes. once you got around that, you never wanna switch back again...
    oh and you get to keep the IE and the file browser "explorer" if you want to

  8. Comment - Stardock Offers Alternatives in OEM Desktop Struggle

    2.0 Beta 3 (Aug 11, 2001 - 6:01 AM)

    you can't do it in the original Win95 but in Win95 OSR2 (if i recall correctly) - when they started integrating the IE.

  9. Comment - Stardock Offers Alternatives in OEM Desktop Struggle

    2.0 Beta 3 (Aug 10, 2001 - 2:10 PM)

    why don't we just all switch to LiteStep and build our desktop ourselves?
    never stopped using it... and i certainly don't miss explorer
    www.ls2k.org

  10. Comment - Stardock Offers Alternatives in OEM Desktop Struggle

    2.0 Beta 3 (Aug 10, 2001 - 2:07 PM)

    amen