Looking the Part - Hiding the Windows UI, lockscreen, etc.
For a more complete "console" look in Retrobox 2, I took on some additional steps. The ability to hide more of the Windows UI requires the Enterprise or Enterprise LTSB version of Windows 10 - however the Shell and UEFI logo customizations will work fine without.
Short of is:
- In an administrative command prompt: [CODE]bcdedit.exe -set {globalsettings} bootuxdisabled on[/CODE]
- In Windows Features: under Device Lockdown, enable 'Custom Logon', 'Shell Launcher' and 'Unbranded Boot'
- Reboot
- In the registry:
[CODE]HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows Embedded\EmbeddedLogon
HideAutoLoginUI=1
HideFirstLogonAnimation=1
[/CODE]
It's also a whole lot cleaner if you create a separate administrative user account, allow that account to logon over RDP, and set it to start explorer.exe rather than Big Box or Kodi. To do that, create the user, and then set these items in the registry:
[CODE]HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon
Shell=explorer.exe
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\IniFileMapping\system.ini\boot
Shell=USR:Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon[/CODE]
The above settings define two things: the default shell (explorer.exe), and to look at the HKEY_CURRENT_USER hive for the user's shell executable (rather than the machine-wide setting).
Finally, set the shell for your auto-logged-on user:
[CODE]HKEY_Current_User\Software\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon
Shell=<BigBox, Kodi etc>[/CODE]
See this MSDN article for all the details on what we're doing here.
Also, credit to:
[MEDIA=imgur]a/r5VGf[/MEDIA]
On top of this, I like to flash a custom boot logo instead of the OEM Asus Republic of Gamers UEFI logo. You can do so by installing ASUS AI Suite (specifically, the EzUpdate utility). Download the latest BIOS update from ASUS along with your preferred boot logo, and tell EzUpdate to flash that BIOS version. Then, click "MyLogo" as it instructs. Select your image and away you go.
