Windows Winlogon Shell & Kiro CLI Auto-Start Setup

1. Set Winlogon Shell to start.bat

Open regedit and navigate to:

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon

Create or modify the Shell string value:

Name:  Shell
Type:  REG_SZ
Value: C:\Users\egugwen\start.bat

Or apply via command line (run as Administrator):

reg add "HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon" /v Shell /t REG_SZ /d "C:\Users\egugwen\start.bat" /f

Note: This overrides the default explorer.exe shell for your user. Make sure start.bat launches Explorer or anything else you need, e.g.:

@echo off
start "" "C:\Windows\explorer.exe"
rem Add other startup commands here

2. Auto-Start kiro-cli from PowerShell Profile

Add the following to your PowerShell profile ($PROFILE, typically ~\Documents\PowerShell\Microsoft.PowerShell_profile.ps1):

function Start-KiroCli {
    if (-not (Get-Process -Name "kiro-cli" -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue)) {
        Start-Process "kiro-cli"
    }
}

Start-KiroCli

If the profile file doesn't exist yet:

New-Item -Path $PROFILE -ItemType File -Force
notepad $PROFILE

Revert Winlogon Shell to Default

reg delete "HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon" /v Shell /f

This restores the default explorer.exe shell from the machine-level setting.