Make Titan Boot at Startup instead of Windows Explorer

[JonnyBeardLighting]

Hey!
We just got this working. Works great for us. When we power up our PC, it loads the login screen, then, it boots straight into Titan Mobile (No start menu/desktop/other icons).

We like it because this computer is used solely as a lighting console, so it provides a better experience, and prevents people from using it for other purposes.

This just requires 2 quick changes in Windows 10 to make it work.

Steps:

1. Make a batch file that will open the Titan Mobile application.
a. Open Notepad (hit windows key+R, then type notepad.exe)
b. In Notepad, type:

@echo off
cd "C:\Program Files (x86)\Avolites\Titan Mobile"
start Mobile.exe

exit

(If your install location of Titan Mobile is different, insert that link above, I think the above is the default link though).

c. Click File->Save As
Save your file as MobileOpen.bat (or whatever you want, just use .bat as the extension)
Select "All Files" as the type
Note where you save this file. C:/users/YourUsername is a good spot

2. Change windows registry to open your batch file instead of windows explorer

(Note: We tried just changing it to open the Mobile.exe file directly, but because Windows 10 will only boot to official windows programs, that wouldn't work. The batch file is an easy workaround past that)

A. Hit windows key+R, then type regedit and hit enter.
B. Navigate to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon
C. Double click on the entry titled "Shell"
D. This will open a small dialogue, the box has explorer.exe written in it.
C. Erase "Explorer.exe" and replace it with the full file path of your .BAT file (C:\Users\YourUsername\MobileOpen.BAT)



Now, close all that stuff, log out, and when you log back in, Titan Mobile will load straight up. This will work with Titan One as well.


If you need to undo this for any reason, just hit Control Alt Delete, then open task manager->file->run, then type regedit and navigate to the same spot as above, only change the "Shell" entry back to "explorer.exe". Then log out and back in, and you will be back to normal.

You can also access many other windows features still using the "run" function in task manager. For example:

chrome.exe will open chrome.
explorer.exe will open a file explorer window

I believe there's also a way to modify the registry so that these changes only apply to a single user (It's a modification in HKEY_CURRENT_USER instead of HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE).

Hope that helps you out! I thought it was a cool mod.