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All I did was put Xbmc in the startup menu so when it boots up into windows it then goes directly to xbmc. Not a shell per say but on my revo works great that way
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As moviebuff explained all you really need to do is put a link to XBMC in the folder called "Startup" that's located in your start menu. Anything in that folder is started after windows finishes booting.
Windows 7 x64 Home Premium
Gigabyte MA78GM-U2SH Mainboard
ATI HD3200 Onboard
AMD 7750BE Dual-Core 4.00GB RAM
ATI HD3200 HDMI Sound
HTPC HMDI -> ONKYO TX-SR605 -> Panasonic TH-46PZ85U Plasma
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I know how to auto-login. But Im saying you cannot remove the screen when it shows you logging in. You can, at most, only change the background (AFAIK). I think you can change a couple little things with the fonts too. Like the shadow etc.
With XP I could have everything black until my wallpaper showed up. then it would open XBMC. So it was very nice looking except for the bios screen. And yes I know I can use S3 standby but I choose to turn the machine off.
I always kill the UAC first thing. Its a waste. I havent tried to change the shell to evengthost with win7. Emerge works well enough for me.
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Have you tried only having one user account (admin of course) and remove all others. That should bypass the login screen. It may require having no password.
Also there is an option on the 'Boot' tab of MSConfig to remove the Boot GUI.
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I guess I am speaking of the "Welcome" screen as it's logging you in. Have you removed that? I have not tried deleting all account but the admin one.
The no GUI boot removes the Windows 7 logo with the animated 4 colors. That can be removed no problem as you said.
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I don't have a spare Win7 machine to test here at work, but if there is only one user account then Windows 7 should bypass the Welcome screen completely as long as there is only one account. Can't recall for sure if it must have no password as well.
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What would I gain in utilizing some of the solutions listed above as opposed to just putting my computer to sleep with XBMC running and then waking the HTPC when I want to use it?