Start Menu is always opening, minor nuisance

[Sephir8th]

I noticed the start menu is always open after the initial login. Is there a way to stop that?

 

[Taosd]

i don't think it is possible sorry

 

[garlin]

My feeling is no. That's a byproduct of first-time logon.

Whenever I play around with Desktop settings that require a logout to take effect, and instead do:
taskkill /f /im explorer.exe && start explorer

Every few instances, or every time if you've modified specific reg keys, StartMenuExperienceHost will magically open.

What I believe is happening: Windows has to start Explorer first, otherwise you have no desktop. But it must add other first-time settings which require waiting for something else. So it restarts the desktop, and Start Menu appears.

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[Sephir8th]

Thanks for the quick reply, got around this by writing a small python code to add a restart into the RunOnce registry after the initial login. It reboots twice but got the job done

 

[garlin]

Since you keep coding workarounds... give yourself 8 hours before asking the next question

 

[Sephir8th]

Since you keep coding workarounds... give yourself 8 hours before asking the next question

Hehe will do! Here's one where I may not be able to get around, is there a way to bypass the 15 character naming limit on the prompt option?

 

[garlin]

That's a restriction for NETBIOS compatibility. If you don't care about it, 63 characters is the limit.
But network shares will truncate the host path to the first 15 characters.

I'm sure it's possible to add an override to NTLCompName.vbs, where you have to acknowledge your reckless abandon.