How to get Windows 8 boot directly into desktop mode

Microsoft Windows 8 has been officially released for a month, and many users have installed the experience. Windows 8 system provides desktop mode and dynamic magnetic stripe (Metro) mode on the view interface, but some users want to Skip the Windows UI (Metro) interface, let Windows 8 boot directly into the desktop mode, let's take a look at the operation method.

Let Windows 8 start from the shutdown state to skip the Windows UI (Metro) interface, directly into the desktop mode is required to modify the registry.

First use the shortcut key Windows key + R to open the "Run" dialog box, enter Regedit, and press Enter to open the Registry Editor. Then the left directory navigates out the path: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESOFTWAREMicrosoftWindows NTCurrentVersionWinlogon, find the shell on the right and double-click it to open the key value, and modify the data.

By default, the data for the Shell key is "explorer.exe", and the default value is changed to "explorer.exe, explorer.exe". Then click OK, save the settings, and finally restart the computer, so you can boot directly into the desktop mode by default.

It is worth noting that if you want to restore the Windows 8 default boot into the normal interface state, you can change the Shell key value back to the default data <;explorer.exe”, you can recover.