LiteShell 0.9.3 Readme

Introduction

LiteShell is a replacement shell for Windows. LiteShell is a minimalist's shell - no screen space is occupied by the shell. When you right-click on the desktop or press a hotkey, a menu provides access to your programs, documents, tasks and anything else you wish. LiteShell provides support for "hotkeys" - key combinations that, when pressed, can perform actions such as running programs.

Any system capable of running Windows 95, 98, ME, NT, 2000 or XP is able to run LiteShell. LiteShell requires less than 500kb of disk space and will run on systems with 4mb RAM (and possibly even less).

Installation and Removal

Run the program "LiteShell 0.9.3 setup.exe". This will:

1. install LiteShell to a directory of your choice;
2. add LiteShell shortcuts to your Start Menu; and
3. allow you to make LiteShell your default shell.

To uninstall LiteShell, click the "Uninstall LiteShell" item from the LiteShell Start Menu folder.

Basic Usage

LiteShell consists of two parts: the menu and hotkeys. The menu displays the contents of your menu folder in the same fashion as the Start Menu displays the contents of your 'Start Menu' folder. Hotkeys are used to launch programs or run LiteShell commands when you press a certain key combination (such as ALT+CTRL+X). By default, the following hotkeys are installed:

To use a LiteShell command in your menu, create a new file in the LiteShell menu folder and rename it to 'Caption!Command' (with NO file extension). That is, to have an item called 'Execute' that displays the 'Run' window (using the LiteShell command '!Run') you would create a file called 'Execute!Run'.

There are many people who have supported LiteShell by using it, distributing it or simply talking about it. I am in debt to all of these people and I have taken it upon me to mention as many of them as I can. I do not expect that I can mention everyone who has supported LiteShell, so I apologise in advance to those people who I have missed (and PLEASE let me know about it). Anyway, here are some of the folk who have been great help (in no particular order):