Alternate Shells

[c0ncept]

k, I currently run Litestep and I seriously love it (especially with the Eyedrop skin). But what alternate shells do you guys run (I'm especially interested in hearing about any that use less system resources than litestep)?

 

[Jekyll]

over the years, I've tried several shells for windows, starting with IceSphere (screenshot)
which I used for some months, but then I discovered that it's pretty basic and low-end for an alternative shell,
and swapped to Geoshell (screenshot) which has nifty geoBars (= Toolbars for every part of the Desktop-UI, and other Applets to put into the geoBars).
My search for a satisfying shell has ended for the moment with Aston Shell (screenshot), which is shareware,
but I love it for its shortcut toolbars which scroll in from the borders of the screen (Example)

 

[markusdragon]

Used to use litestep. Got bored/fed up of it messing up every couple of hours so switched back to explorer.

Fat load of good that did me...

 

[jegHegy]

been using bbLean (screenshot) for over a year, haven't looked back once.

edit: forgot to add, it's very easy on resources, even with a lot of plugins enabled.

 

[c0ncept]

Used to use litestep. Got bored/fed up of it messing up every couple of hours so switched back to explorer.

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perseverence is the key, the stable builds of litestep are just that. So if something was going wrong it was probably the theme you were using.

 

[DemonStar55]

I use litestep

use to use the Non | step theme but I got bored of that after like 3 moinths so I switched to a nice simple one called complex simplicity

 

[Nilsiboy]

i'm currently running BB4WIN with the standard skin, a nice dark wallpaper and miranda, which, configured well, fits perfectly (borderless friendlist, transparency inactive 15%, active 30% (well, approximately) and ghostify plugin (you can click through the window ))