bill48nj1 Posted April 10, 2015 Share Posted April 10, 2015 Hi I was using Classic Shell 4.1.0 on Windows 8.1 Pro 64-bit. I love the start menu from the shell orb on the Desktop. I really got to like the Metro UI, and decided I want to boot directly to the Metro Ui. After trying all settings in Classic Shell, and Windows 8.1 settings with no results, I completely uninstalled Classic Shell. After some research, I found that in Windows 8.1, the default startup goes to Desktop. Is there a registry tweak to change the default boot to go directly to Metro UI? Thanks for your trouble, and have a nice day! Regards, bill48nj1. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Max Norris Posted April 10, 2015 Share Posted April 10, 2015 Yea, right click the taskbar and check the properties. Under "Navigation" uncheck the one that says "Go to the desktop instead of Start when I sign in." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ian W Posted April 10, 2015 Share Posted April 10, 2015 Right-click the taskbar, select Properties, click the Navigation tab, and enable the "When I sign in or close all apps on a screen, go to the desktop instead of Start" option. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bill48nj1 Posted April 10, 2015 Author Share Posted April 10, 2015 Yea, right click the taskbar and check the properties. Under "Navigation" uncheck the one that says "Go to the desktop instead of Start when I sign in." Thanks for the reply, but I already had that unchecked under Navigation. I read that 8.1 is set to boot to desktop by default and no option to change it. In version 8 the defailt boot was to Metro Start screen. I was hoping someone had a registry hack to change 8.1 default boot back to metro. Thanks, bill48nj1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MikeChipshop Member Posted April 10, 2015 Member Share Posted April 10, 2015 Thanks for the reply, but I already had that unchecked under Navigation. I read that 8.1 is set to boot to desktop by default and no option to change it. In version 8 the defailt boot was to Metro Start screen. I was hoping someone had a registry hack to change 8.1 default boot back to metro. Thanks, bill48nj1 The above posters are correct. Boot to desktop and the related checkbox to turn that off, were only introduced in 8.1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bill48nj1 Posted April 10, 2015 Author Share Posted April 10, 2015 Right-click the taskbar, select Properties, click the Navigation tab, and enable the "When I sign in or close all apps on a screen, go to the desktop instead of Start" option. PowerfulOptions.png Hi. I left "When I sign in or close all apps on a screen, go to the desktop instead of Start" unchecked. You must have misunderstood my original post. I don't want to go to the Desktop, I want to boot 8.1 directly to METRO START SCREEN instead. Thanks for your trouble. bill48nj1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Max Norris Posted April 10, 2015 Share Posted April 10, 2015 I read that 8.1 is set to boot to desktop by default and no option to change it. In version 8 the defailt boot was to Metro Start screen. I was hoping someone had a registry hack to change 8.1 default boot back to metro. Right, it is set to go to the desktop by default, but unchecking that box (which I forgot changed its text with the later update) will have it go to the start screen instead as soon as the user logs on, positive about that as I have a few 8.1 systems at home doing that now. I'm not in front of it now to check, but it should be setting the registry key below: HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\StartPage\OpenAtLogonSetting that to 1 has it go to the start screen, 0 is the desktop. That's assuming some third party extension isn't overriding that of course, in which case you need to deal with that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vcfan Posted April 10, 2015 Share Posted April 10, 2015 Thanks for the reply, but I already had that unchecked under Navigation. I read that 8.1 is set to boot to desktop by default and no option to change it. In version 8 the defailt boot was to Metro Start screen. I was hoping someone had a registry hack to change 8.1 default boot back to metro. Thanks, bill48nj1 try to check it,apply,ok, reboot. then uncheck it,apply,ok and reboot, see if this works. MikeChipshop 1 Share Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MikeChipshop Member Posted April 10, 2015 Member Share Posted April 10, 2015 Hi. I left "When I sign in or close all apps on a screen, go to the desktop instead of Start" unchecked. You must have misunderstood my original post. I don't want to go to the Desktop, I want to boot 8.1 directly to METRO START SCREEN instead. Thanks for your trouble. bill48nj1 That's exactly what it should do. Maybe Classic She'll screwed with something. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ian W Posted April 10, 2015 Share Posted April 10, 2015 Hi. I left "When I sign in or close all apps on a screen, go to the desktop instead of Start" unchecked. You must have misunderstood my original post. I don't want to go to the Desktop, I want to boot 8.1 directly to METRO START SCREEN instead. Thanks for your trouble. bill48nj1 I'm terribly sorry. I didn't misunderstand your original post, but I did apparently get the options confused. If you disable the option I previously mentioned then the OS should boot to the Start screen instead. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
akbarhusein00 Posted April 21, 2015 Share Posted April 21, 2015 guys, I want to know the best OS this year? because I want be proggraming, sorry bad eng Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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