Is there any way to show the WinDeploy fake boot screen on demand/while in windows?

Question

similar to how you can call the FirstLogonAnim to show (oobe/FirstLogonAnim.exe /RunFirstLogonAnim), i want to do the same but with windeploy, which i believe is the thing that shows the fake boot screen, if i am wrong, than what application does show that boot screen?

Answer 1

Hi, The problem is that windeploy isn't the fake boot screen you are referring to. Windeploy is the component that changes the text, such as, "Starting Services" and "Getting Devices Ready **%". But not all is lost, you can still access this mode, which people call "Windows 10 MS-DOS mode". In this mode, you will be running as system giving you full control over your system, which means you can cause a quite large around of damage, so just be careful, and of course, I can't be help responsible for any problems you cause :)

Before starting, create a restore point just in case anything happens

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To Enter MS-DOS Mode:

-- On your system, open regedit.exe

-- go to "Computer\HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\Setup"

-- Change "CmdLine" from "oobe\windeploy.exe" to cmd.exe

-- Change "SystemSetupInProgress" from "0" to "1"

-- Change "SetupType" from "0" to "1"

-- Then Restart your PC.

A Command Prompt should appear on startup, if not do "SHIFT+F10" to open one.

Please make sure you know what to change and don't change anything else

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To Exit MS-DOS Mode:

-- Just change the values back to what they where before in regedit.exe

-- Then do "shutdown /r /t 0" to restart your PC after the value changes to get back to your desktop.

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Hope this helps :)