Boot to a full screen application in windows 10

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I have created C# application that will run in full screen mode. Now I want to run this application in full screen when I power on the system. I want to hide the login screen and desktop. I want to display only my application in full screen. I am using windows 10 for this purpose.
Any one know, how I can do this in windows 10.

Posted 18-Jan-16 18:14pm

Arun Kumar K S

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Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov 19-Jan-16 1:20am

Boot to? There is no such concept. You only can boot an OS. This is not how Windows works.
—SA

Arun Kumar K S 19-Jan-16 1:21am

I want to run a GUI application before the desktop and need to remove the login screen also.
I know in windows XP we can remove the login screen by a single user without password. and is possible to run a GUI application from the startup application folder

Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov 19-Jan-16 1:45am

May I know why?
Before desktop? But on what desktop? Forget it. It makes no sense, really. Please see Solution 1.
—SA

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Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov · Answer 1 · 2016-01-18T19:43:00

Please see my comment to the question. This is not how Windows works. If you want exactly what you say, it means you have to develop a different OS which can execute windows PE files the same way as Windows does.

The closest type of software product would be something quite far from a Windows desktop application. On Windows versions before Vista, you could customize Winlogon by writing custom GINA. This type of development is presently outdated (please see Winlogon - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia[^], also outdated).

In modern Windows versions, you can develop a custom credential provider. Between practically failed Vista and Windows 10, this part of architecture has been a subject of considerable changes, so I would not rush into customization of Windows log-on. If you want to dig in it, you can start here:
Winlogon and Credential Providers (Windows)[^],
Credential Providers in Windows 10 (Windows)[^].

—SA

Member 16124693 · Answer 2 · 2023-10-26T09:28:00

Solution 2

you can try WINDOWS EMBEDDED STANDARD 7 OS, it was made just for dedicated softwares which will run on full screen at startup

Posted 26-Oct-23 9:28am

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Updated 26-Oct-23 10:16am

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Dave Kreskowiak 26-Oct-23 17:22pm

Windows 7 Embedded was End-Of-Life'd 8 years ago, and security updates ended 3 years ago. This is not a viable option anymore.

Being this is a 7-year-old question, I doubt the OP still works on this project.

By the way, Windows Embedded was replaced by Windows IoT.