For a kiosk application, I need to not start the Windows desktop/start menu on boot, but rather, a custom application instead. I set HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon\Shell
to c:\myapp\myapp.exe and it works.
But occasionnally, I need to run the Windows desktop / start menu anyway, after having booted on my kiosk app. So I do CTRL+SHIFT+ESCAPE to run the Task Manager, then I run a new task from File > New task, then explorer.exe. I tried both with "Run with admin privilege" checkbox checked or not.
It works: the Windows desktop appears but there are a few corner cases, see for example Can't access the Device manager from Start menu, but working from Control panel, on Windows 10.
Question: how to start explorer.exe (the windows desktop + start menu, i'm not speaking of the file explorer) with the same parameters as the login process?
Linked question (but does not solve): How to launch the Windows Explorer shell after starting with a different one?
