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I have an application that I want to boot in directly when windows xp starts. So after that "welcome" screen I don't want to see anything and load directly into the app.

How can I do that?

I tried adding a exe file to startup folder. But he is loading some 2-3 thing and then my app and I see windows desktop normally.

Is it possible to load it directly?

It is a windows form application not an cmd.

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Note: This will replace the whole Windows shell with your application. There will be no start menu, no task bar and no desktop.

One way to get it back, is to invoke Task Manager with Ctrl+Shift+Escape and start explorer.exe from there.

To permanently reverse this change, just start regedit.exe again and change the Shell key back to explorer.exe.

How to fully replace the Windows shell with another application

You can change the registry key

HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon\Shell

to point to your application. Then it will be started instead of explorer.exe as the shell.

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