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DarkStep
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Version
0.96
A program which replaces Explorer as the shell under Win9x, NT and W2K. It was conceived as a themer's shell because while other Explorer replacements like the ever popular LiteStep offer a lot of customizability, the user has to know quite a bit about the internal workings of the shell in order to change a theme or to get all the customizability out of it. DarkStep on the other hand, aims at providing just as much customizability as other shells while also striving to provide ease of use so that a user will be able to switch themes on the fly without having to actually get their hands dirty so to speak by messing with configuration files and stuff. The above goal is achieved by way of an API which makes it easy for developers to read from and write to multiple configuration files so that they can separate theme specific info from config specific info in such a way that switching themes will not affect the way a user has their shell set up. DarkStep will work with most LiteStep modules as well as native DarkStep modules though certain functionality may be missing from LiteStep modules that you may see in native DarkStep modules due to the way the two shells operate.
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