Greg, I was wondering if the simple windows + R shortcut could not be sent from a scheduled batch file, since it does just this, open the desktop
Anyway, I am so used to key this in that I am not sure I would bother to automate it
Fact is that when I open a session on the desktop sometimes I stay for a while looking at the tiles, the live ones showing traffic alerts, wheather reports, headlines on the news, you know...
Sometimes in 3 or 5 seconds I see something important there. And Win+R key sequence takes less than a second. Maybe I am buying the tiles idea after all