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Re:Under the hood of Windows 8, or why desktop users should ... by latortuga on Tuesday October 23, 2012 @03:05PM (#4689773)
Regarding your last comment about booting to Desktop: you can already access the full desktop and I'm guessing there's a preference to say "just boot me to the desktop".
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Re:Under the hood of Windows 8, or why desktop users should ... by usea on Tuesday October 23, 2012 @03:14PM (#4689841)
There is no such preference, no such registry setting or group policy. You have to use an executable that's set to run on startup that will show the desktop. Or you can hack/replace the shell.

http://www.7tutorials.com/how-boot-desktop-windows-8-skip-st...

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Re:Under the hood of Windows 8, or why desktop users should ... by sigkill on Tuesday October 23, 2012 @03:33PM (#4689960)
Well yeah, that's exactly what I mean. Right now, there's no actual way to directly to boot there.

So the best quasi-hack I do is move the desktop tile to the top-most position. When the computer has just booted up, this allows me to simply press "Enter" and go to the desktop since I'm too lazy to use the mouse.

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