What’s really happening on first user logon?

When you initially sign into Windows, by default you ll see the pulsing color screen as first-time things are done in the background: You can disable that first sign-in animation via GPO, MDM policy, or equivalent registry entry. I cover that a while back: https://oofhours.com/2020/06/08/make-esp-look-better-by-disabling-fsia/ But other than the extra CPU consumed by the animation (a [ ]