Windows 8 Show Desktop At Logon
From the archive (2013). Written for the tools of the time, so some details may be out of date.
I recently had a need at a client site to always show the desktop upon logging into a Windows 8 machine.
A very simple solution that worked for me is to simply add a Registry key to run Explorer.exe at logon.
Simply add the following key: (snippet from a script I used)
oShell.RegWrite “HKEY_Local_Machine\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run\Explorer”, “C:\Windows\Explorer.exe”, “REG_SZ”
After adding this, every time you log into the machine, Explorer will launch and the Windows 8 desktop will be shown. Nothing fancy about this solution, but it works.