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[quote who="rgbc" reply="20" id="3288261"] Quoting Neil Banfield, reply 19 Are you using any antivirus or anti malware applications? The latest beta changed how the startup code worked and it is possible they are delaying things sufficiently to cause that most unusual issue. Also is this on a SSD or standard HD? AV is Windows 8 Defender with default settings, I disabled it and rebooted, same result, desktop loads for around 2 seconds and then flashes over

[quote who="Neil Banfield" reply="19" id="3288033"] Are you using any antivirus or anti malware applications? The latest beta changed how the startup code worked and it is possible they are delaying things sufficiently to cause that most unusual issue. Also is this on a SSD or standard HD?[/quote] AV is Windows 8 Defender with default settings, I disabled it and rebooted, same result, desktop loads for around 2 seconds and then flashes over to Metr

[quote who="Neil Banfield" reply="13" id="3287723"] Quoting rgbc, reply 12Quoting Neil Banfield, reply 11 Quoting rgbc, reply 10Hi Stardock, I just updated from 1.03a to 1.09 beta and Start8 is no longer booting direct to desktop (all earlier versions have worked perfectly), after log in the desktop loads for a couple of seconds and then the Metro start screen loads. I've tried uninstalling Start8, rebooting and reinstalling, no change, toggling the Automatically go t

[quote who="Neil Banfield" reply="11" id="3287718"] Quoting rgbc, reply 10Hi Stardock, I just updated from 1.03a to 1.09 beta and Start8 is no longer booting direct to desktop (all earlier versions have worked perfectly), after log in the desktop loads for a couple of seconds and then the Metro start screen loads. I've tried uninstalling Start8, rebooting and reinstalling, no change, toggling the Automatically go to the desktop option has no effect. Let m

Hi Stardock, I just updated from 1.03a to 1.09 beta and Start8 is no longer booting direct to desktop (all earlier versions have worked perfectly), after log in the desktop loads for a couple of seconds and then the Metro start screen loads. I've tried uninstalling Start8, rebooting and reinstalling, no change, toggling the Automatically go to the desktop option has no effect. Let me know if you'd like any more info. Thanks, Rob Windows 8