There is a way to open a menu that allows selecting “Resource Bundles” without the use of a discrete chain of keyboard combinations or UI interactions. You can access this menu by pressing the ` key on a keyboard.
This section only covers a temporary normal desktop environment that will not persist across reboots, if you would like it to persist until you manually change it, follow the instructions in Autobooting to the Normal Windows Desktop Environment.
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The following will NOT work on a Windows 7 machine, this will only work on Windows 10 or Windows 11!
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To get a normal desktop environment until you power off the PC, open command prompt from the Redbox Desktop and type explorer, the first time this is done will launch the normal desktop environment, any subsequent calls will open a new explorer window.
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If you want to prevent the autoboot of Kiosk Engine and would rather boot to a standard Windows desktop environment, you need to edit the Shellregistry key located at HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon
You want to change the value of this key to C:\Windows\explorer.exe
After you change the value, reboot the machine and the Windows desktop environment will show by default.
+After you change the value, reboot the machine and the normal Windows desktop environment will be displayed.
To switch back to the default kiosk engine autoboot, change the value to C:\Program Files\Redbox\KioskShell\KioskShell.exe