Don’t get me wrong, I like to watch a god movie, it’s just that I don’t like to see the same movie twice. In Windows 8 there is a movie that is played for the first time logon and there is a Group Policy setting you can use to disable it. However, since I’m an OSD guy, I prefer to remove it long before that. So here you have a nice MDT Application you can download and install and put it into your task sequence for Windows 8 and you will never ever see it once more. Happy deployment!
(and thank you Jeremy Moskowitz for the idea on YouTube)
Download the zip file, extract it and create a new Application in MDT 2012 Update 1.
Select Application with Source Files
Give it a name
Select the location of your download
Give it a name
Type in the command
cscript Configure-Win8AnimAtFirst.wsf
Finish
Then you add it to your task sequence. Done
The script looks like this:
<job id="Configure-Win8AnimAtFirst">
<script language="VBScript" src="..\..\Scripts\ZTIUtility.vbs"/>
<script language="VBScript">
‘//—————————————————————————-
‘// Solution: Hydration
‘// Purpose: Used to turn off the animation in Windows at first logon
‘// Usage: cscript Configure-Win8AnimAtFirst.wsf [/debug:true]
‘// Version: 1.0 – Jan 02 2013 – Mikael Nystrom
‘//
‘// This script is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, confers no rights and
‘// is not supported by the authors or the Deployment Bunny.
‘//
‘//—————————————————————————-
‘//—————————————————————————-
‘// Global constant and variable declarations
‘//—————————————————————————-
Option Explicit
Dim iRetVal
‘//—————————————————————————-
‘// End declarations
‘//—————————————————————————-
‘//—————————————————————————-
‘// Main routine
‘//—————————————————————————-
On Error Resume Next
iRetVal = ZTIProcess
ProcessResults iRetVal
On Error Goto 0
‘//—————————————————————————
‘//
‘// Function: ZTIProcess()
‘//
‘// Input: None
‘//
‘// Return: Success – 0
‘// Failure – non-zero
‘//
‘// Purpose: Perform main ZTI processing
‘//
‘//—————————————————————————
Function ZTIProcess()
oLogging.CreateEntry "Configure Animation in Windows 8: Starting", LogTypeInfo
oShell.RegWrite "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\System\EnableFirstLogonAnimation", "0", "REG_DWORD"
oLogging.CreateEntry "Configure Animation in Windows 8: Done", LogTypeInfo
End Function
</script>
</job>
/mike
