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Eddie Amsel
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isn't there any way to boot into explorer or something?
Hold down the shift key - at restart it should give you advanced recovery options
Eddie Amsel
Student
So clearing the attract.am file did nothing for me other than Attract mode boting into another game and won't letting me exit it...
At the end what solved the issue was actually looking in the attract.CFG file and under "general\startup_mode" I entered "show_last_selection"
as this was set to "launch_last_game" before..
However I don't understand how this could have happened. Does it mean you can never shut down Attract Mode by "Power Off System" in UTILS because it will cause the loop?
Ok, and how to return this without having the Logon Screen back?
Well you hit the nail on the head earlier, that is seen as a game by Attract Mode so you need to use another method for launching a game automatically or shutting down the system. I've used the Utility Menu plugin for Attract Mode before which probably wouldn't have the same issue. It's quite cool because you can run anything as a script so it's pretty versatile. Actually, doesn't Attract Mode have an option to shut down the system on exit? you could use the standard tab menu exit command in AM.
In terms of the explorer issue - why are you going into explorer every time? it's only there for making changes right? if you don't launch that explorer link from Attract Mode you won't see a start menu, task bar and icons. It's just how Windows works, not sure if you can change it but it shouldn't be an issue in regular use.
Eddie Amsel
Student
I am not. The screen below is popping up after I launched a game from attract mode, as well as when closing a game.
It didn't do that before.
thomas3184
Grand Master
It should be in the naomi games folder. What is wrong with it? Should be on the stock v4 already.
No I’ve got Capcom vs sink millennium fight 2000 and pro, but Capcom vs sink 2 mark of the millennium 2001 are on wheel but missing from games roms.
Try changing your shell app, go into the registry and modify this key:I am not. The screen below is popping up after I launched a game from attract mode, as well as when closing a game.
It didn't do that before.
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows NT\Winlogon\Shell
Change it to e:\system\am\multi.exe and reboot
From memory that also disables the boot video
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lemmingDev
Student
Does anyone have an idea on how the original ARTAX TTX3 v4 Windows 10 image was created with the desktop disabled, no Start menu, Windows Store apps removed etc?
Is see it's using Windows 10 Enterprise LTSC
Is see it's using Windows 10 Enterprise LTSC
thomas3184
Grand Master
This is what happens when you shell windows using another program other than explorer, you just get a blank screen as your desktop.
lemmingDev
Student
So, I've just found it's actually pretty easy to do
You just have to run regedit, and change the Shell value at Computer\HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon\
They've got it set to C:\multiboot.exe, but if you set it back to explorer.exe, it turns back into a regular Windows 10 environment (after running explorer from the task manager or simply logging in again) (and the keyboard volume control starts working again)
So it seems it's not all that difficult to start from scratch if we wanted. Would like to know how to get keyboard volume control working while not using explorer as the shell though. A compromise might be to:
* set explorer as the shell
* hide all desktop icons
* autohide the task bar
* autorun C:\multiboot.exe on login (if you want to play the video, or autorun E:\SYSTEM\AM\multi.exe to skip it...)
Lots to try out...
You just have to run regedit, and change the Shell value at Computer\HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon\
They've got it set to C:\multiboot.exe, but if you set it back to explorer.exe, it turns back into a regular Windows 10 environment (after running explorer from the task manager or simply logging in again) (and the keyboard volume control starts working again)
So it seems it's not all that difficult to start from scratch if we wanted. Would like to know how to get keyboard volume control working while not using explorer as the shell though. A compromise might be to:
* set explorer as the shell
* hide all desktop icons
* autohide the task bar
* autorun C:\multiboot.exe on login (if you want to play the video, or autorun E:\SYSTEM\AM\multi.exe to skip it...)
Lots to try out...
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Eddie Amsel
Student
So I did that and only have a Black Screen and can't do anything again...
@chunksin: Is it me or are you trolling me ?
lemmingDev
Student
He's not trolling. Just did it and it works fineSo I did that and only have a Black Screen and can't do anything again...
@chunksin: Is it me or are you trolling me ?
You set it to:
e:\system\am\multi.exe
and not
e:\system\am\multi.exe and reboot
yeah
Anyway, ctrl-alt-del to run task manager and then select file-->Run new task and type in regedit
Then you can change it
Eddie Amsel
Student
Thank you! I did not know this step. Seems I am really not familiar with Windows to be messing with this...
@chunksin: Thank you for your support and no offense in anyway by me accusing you of trolling
(well I didn't really do that)So I reversed everything back to how it was and reversing this step was crutial:
Now the Taskbar and Startmenu is hidden again and also doesn't show up during game launch anymore.
Which I don't understand because the opposite should be the case but anyways i don't want to spam this thread due to my lack of Windows knowledge...
lemmingDev
Student
With a little bit of effort, I was able to change the shell to explorer.exe, load a special program to hide the task bar (http://www.itsamples.com/taskbar-hider.html) (as standard Windows autohide option wasn't good enough because it kept showing briefly every time a game was loaded), hide all desktop icons so the screen is 100% black and then autorun the multi at boot (timeout set to 0 secs in the registry, as it was taking 10 secs before loading by default)
So, why would I bother as it looks/works exactly like before?
Because now
1. The volume controls work <-- reason for attempting
2. I can show the taskbar with ctrl-shift-a (default option in http://www.itsamples.com/taskbar-hider.html)
3. Windows key brings up start menu
Not too useful for many on cabs with volume knobs, but as one of my testing devices is a laptop, it will come in handy...
So, why would I bother as it looks/works exactly like before?
Because now
1. The volume controls work <-- reason for attempting
2. I can show the taskbar with ctrl-shift-a (default option in http://www.itsamples.com/taskbar-hider.html)
3. Windows key brings up start menu
Not too useful for many on cabs with volume knobs, but as one of my testing devices is a laptop, it will come in handy...
Thank you! I did not know this step. Seems I am really not familiar with Windows to be messing with this...
@chunksin: Thank you for your support and no offense in anyway by me accusing you of trolling
So I reversed everything back to how it was and reversing this step was crutial:
Now the Taskbar and Startmenu is hidden again and also doesn't show up during game launch anymore.
Which I don't understand because the opposite should be the case but anyways i don't want to spam this thread due to my lack of Windows knowledge...
It's cool, sorry this didn't work out quite as you expected but if you add the features and make the registry change as described it works, that's what I did on mine, it's easy to script the changes so maybe I'll do that and post back.
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