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Not sure, but there certainly is a registry hack that will do it. Step-By-Step: Booting directly to the Desktop in Windows 8.1

It wasn't my initial plan to use OblyTile for aid the customisation of the start screen. But after I saw how non cohesive our own applications looked compared to the ones included in the original SOE, we decided to spend the afternoon developing Tiles for our own applications. In terms of Start8/ClassicShell. Before commencing work on my image build, for interests sake I contacted Stardock for a quote Start8 to see how much it would cost to purchase for inclusion on our SOE. The quote they provided wasn't terribly economical for school's who wished to provide a Start Menu....

We will be deploying Windows 8.1 to approximately 600-800 student devices for the start of the Australian school year. The base SOE is provided by our State Education Department with the schools then modifying it to include their own applications. The SOE by default is set to boot to the Desktop by default. And then the Start Screen has customised tiles from OblyTile. The end result looks a little like this (With our own customisations like CS6/Printers/Shutdown Buttons/Firefox