Reader YBoris’s desktop completely replaces the Windows interface with LiteStep—a minimalist, functional and infinitely hackable shell replacement.
Once you’ve installed LiteStep, your start menu and desktop icons will be replaced entirely with the LiteStep skin you’ve chosen—this is not a customisation geared at mere mortals, but the result can turn your desktop into anything you can dream up—in this theme, the desktop context menu is turned into a customised launcher, and the tray icons are hidden until you mouse over the clock.
This configuration is a combination of:
- Custom LiteStep theme by YBoris, includes the start menu, desktop context menu and tray icons.
- Custom Rainmeter 10-Foot HUD skin (which runs as a built-in module for LiteStep).
- Custom Rainlendar skin by YBoris adds the calendar and to-do list on the desktop.
- Desktop wallpaper by lassekongo83.
Want to create your own LiteStep desktop? Head over to the LiteStep download page and check it out, but make sure to read the documentation before you do—LiteStep is geared at tech-savvy readers only.
YBoris’s Dec2008 Desktop [Flickr]