Automatically recreate the classic desktop with a trick

Although Windows 8 doesn’t
allow you to boot straight to the classic
desktop, this can be done with a trick.
You have to go through the new tiled
interface and automate the change to
the desktop using a script.
Open any
folder in Windows Explorer for this
purpose, right click with the mouse
button on a free space to the right and
select the context command “New |
Text document”. Then open the fi le for
editing and add the following lines:
Set WShShell = WScript.
CreateObject(“Wscript.shell”)
WshShell.sendkeys
“desktop{Enter}”
Now save and close the text fi le. Your
settings will cause the desktop to be
called up as if you had invoked it yourself.
Next, change the name of the text fi le, to
“Desktopstart.vbs”. The extension “vbs” is
important here, so that Windows treats
the text fi le as script. Confi rm the warning
regarding renaming with “Yes”.
All you need to do now is copy the
VBS fi le to the Startup folder. However,
the process would be more streamlined
as a scheduled task. To do this, click
on “System and Security” in the Control
Panel, then on “Administrative tools” and
fi nally double-click on “Schedule task”.
Begin on the right with “Create task”.
In the “General” pane, type in
“Desktopstart” for example, as the name
and activate it under the option “Run
with highest privileges”. After that, switch
to the tab “Trigger” and click on “New”.
At “Start task”, select the setting “At log
in” and confi rm with “OK”. Now switch
back to the tab “Actions” and click on
“New” again. Leave the action “Start
program” selected and click on “Browse”.
Now, navigate to the VBS fi le, open it,
and confi rm the action with “OK”. Further
“Conditions” and “Settings” are mostly
not necessary. Now, generate the task
with “OK” and restart the system for
testing. From now on, though you will
briefl y see the tiled interface, you will be
taken to the desktop directly.