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It's a minor thing, but I find the auto-opening of the start menu that covers 1/2 of my screen on login to be super annoying. Is there a way (registry setting?) to disable this so that it just opens into my desktop?
e.g. this menu auto-opening blocks 2/3rds of the desktop
scunliffe
Posted 2019-09-19T22:27:55.243
Reputation: 1 508
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So it looks like I'm a victim of my own actions. To save on laptop battery I tend to hibernate my PC. This involves clicking the start button (or pressing the windows key⊞) then choosing Hibernate from the power icon menu.
At this point Windows does exactly what one would expect... hibernating everything as it currently stands, including the fact that the start menu is open... Doh!
I've setup a hotkey combination I found here: https://www.trickyways.com/2018/12/create-a-hibernate-shortcut-key-icon-on-desktop/ so that I can use the hotkey CTRL+SHIFT+ALT+H to hibernate... and upon restarting, the start menu does not appear.
I'd like to argue to Microsoft that this is still a bit of a bug. Every other click action on the start menu launches that application AND dismisses the menu. I think the power menu options (Sleep, Hibernate, etc.) should behave the same.
scunliffe
Posted 2019-09-19T22:27:55.243
Reputation: 1 508
Is this when your computer resumes from sleep or powering on or is the computer just locked? Did you sleep the computer by opening the Start Menu and clicking the appropriate command? – music2myear – 2019-10-03T22:56:43.523
On boot, and after resuming after hybernating for sure... need to double check if it happen on unlock, or user switch too. – scunliffe – 2019-10-03T22:59:20.860
Is Cortana set to resume previous programs on restart? Basically, if your start menu is open when you sleep the computer, when you wake it, it'll be open. I don't know if the behavior is the same on power on, but if you're using the Resume Where I Left Off setting in Cortana, it may be. – music2myear – 2019-10-03T23:37:16.190