Windows 8 Unattend not Show Apps Installing

[andyasselin]

Hi I was wonder if any one knew why when every preinstalled apps on windows 8.1 images it does not show the app installing it just show the Welcome screen and they preinstall in background if open taskmgr when it at that screen show them

I have compared my config file few times to 7 one it does not do this maybe I am missing something

[Tripredacus]

Yeah I ran into this problem as well. I had a "fix" for Windows 8 but it stopped working with Windows 8.1. In addition, if you write a script that generates a messagebox, it will break the Start Screen too.

However, in 8.1 you can configure it to boot to the desktop rather than the Start Screen. Here is some talk about it:

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/mis_laboratory/archive/2013/08/09/windows-8-1-boot-to-desktop-maybe-the-designers-were-right.aspx

I have been told there is a way to do it programmatically, but I didn't do any research on that yet.