G’day 🙂
Sometimes – particularly when you upgrade Windows 8 to Windows 8.1 – you will find that Classic Shell no longer skips the Metro startup screen.
This is true even if you go into Classic Shell settings – Windows 8.1 Settings and tick “Skip Metro Screen.”
You might be able to work around this by instead telling Windows to skip the Metro screen and instead boot to the traditional desktop. To do this:
1 – Right-Click some empty space in the Task Bar. (The thing with the clock on it.)
2 – Click the “Navigation” tab.
3 – Try ticking the “When I sign in or close all my apps, go to the Desktop instead of Start” and / or “Show my desktop background on Start.”
Hopefully, problem solved 🙂