LS Dev for Vista - Volume Fix, SysTray & Start Up Program Issues

Hello all - I am a long time user of Litestep and I am in the middle of
finally migrating over to Vista since the drivers seem to have gotten to the
point they need to be.  I am running Litestep under Vista but have a couple
of outstanding issues.

 

Volume Fix for Media Keyboards

Just for info - v_bang and other volume control modules like umslider do not
work under Vista because of the new windows mixers (as far as I can tell) -
I had issues getting my G15 Keyboard to control volume correctly.  Solution
was to get rid of v_bang and use !execute with nircmd and jkeys to
control/mute volume.  Works well although I can't change volume inside games
with the wheel but I had this issue before in XP.

 

Ok, so my questions - is there any dev going on with respect to getting LS
going better with Vista?  If so where is it centered?  I am running the
experimental build July 2007 - but it doesn't seem to be aimed at getting
anything running under Vista.

 

Tray Issues

I basically have 2 issues - one the tray is not showing all the icons that
are present when I use the exploder as a shell - this includes windows
defender, volume,  updates, couple others.   There may be a better tray
module I should be using but I couldn't find it.  I am using systray2 right
now.

 

Startup Issues

Next issue is that for some reason the items in my user startup folder try
to open twice when I have litestep as my shell.  This does not happen if I
run a really old build of litestep instead of the current ones.  I suspect
it has something to do with the startup detection.  If I use -nostartup to
start Litestep - nothing launches at all.   I am thinking I might be able to
fix that with startright but I would like to avoid using something custom.

 

Does anyone have any advice for these issues?  Or can you point me to where
some active dev is going on so I can report these?

 

Hopefully I can get these resolved - I cant visualize myself using the
windows shell full time J

 

Thanks for all the support for Litestep - much appreciated.

 

Chris (Thermo)