Shell Launcher
Shell Launcher is an interesting item in that Microsoft allows developers to create their own shells for Windows. The documentation on doing this for Windows 10 is somewhat incomplete at this time, but one can expect it follows similar guidelines as Windows Embedded, which is documented on MSDN and TechNet. This is also how we can specify Windows 10 to launch Citrix or VMWare launchers for thin clients. Interestingly enough, in build 1511, this was known as Embedded Shell Launcher and in newer builds as Custom Shell Launcher.
Typically, these need to know which users you want the custom shell for. This is only available to control via PowerShell at this time and is documented at https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-hardware/customize/enterprise/shell-launcher ...
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