{"id":614,"date":"2016-11-16T13:37:04","date_gmt":"2016-11-16T13:37:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ibex.tech\/windows-iot\/?p=29"},"modified":"2016-11-16T13:37:04","modified_gmt":"2016-11-16T13:37:04","slug":"headed-vs-headless-mode","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ibex.tech\/csharp\/windows-10-iot-core\/windows-iot-general\/headed-vs-headless-mode","title":{"rendered":"Headed vs Headless mode"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n\tWindows 10 IoT Core can be configured for either headed or headless mode.\n<\/p>\n<h5>\n\tHeaded mode<br \/>\n<\/h5>\n<p>\n\tA UI is provided. A&nbsp;single UI app will be launched at system boot and there can additionally be 0 or more &ldquo;Background Apps&rdquo; (StartupTasks).\n<\/p>\n<h5>\n\tHeadless mode<br \/>\n<\/h5>\n<p>\n\tThere is no UI. The UI stack is disabled and UI apps will not launch. This reduces the amount of system resources used. If you attach a monitor to your device, the screen will be black.\n<\/p>\n<h4>\n\tSetting the Headed \/ Headless Mode<br \/>\n<\/h4>\n<p>\n\tUse these with the command line\n<\/p>\n<h5>\n\tDisplay the current state of your device<br \/>\n<\/h5>\n<pre>\n<code>\nsetbootoption.exe\n<\/code><\/pre>\n<h5>\n\tEnable headless mode<br \/>\n<\/h5>\n<pre>\n<code>\nsetbootoption.exe headless\nshutdown \/r \/t 0\n<\/code><\/pre>\n<h5>\n\tEnable headed mode<br \/>\n<\/h5>\n<pre>\n<code>\nsetbootoption.exe headed\nshutdown \/r \/t 0\n<\/code><\/pre>\n<h4>\n\tFinding A Headless Device<br \/>\n<\/h4>\n<p>\n\tAn IoT Core device that is in headless mode can be discovered using the Windows 10 IoT Core Dashboard application which listens for pings from any IoT Core devices on the local network and displays device information such as the name, IP address, and more. &nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/go.microsoft.com\/fwlink\/?LinkID=708576\">Download here<\/a>.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Windows 10 IoT Core can be configured for either headed or headless mode. Headed mode A UI is provided. A&nbsp;single UI app will be launched at system boot and there can additionally be 0 or more &ldquo;Background Apps&rdquo; (StartupTasks). Headless mode There is no UI. The UI stack is disabled and UI apps will not [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[61],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-614","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-windows-iot-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ibex.tech\/csharp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/614","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ibex.tech\/csharp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ibex.tech\/csharp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ibex.tech\/csharp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ibex.tech\/csharp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=614"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ibex.tech\/csharp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/614\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ibex.tech\/csharp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=614"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ibex.tech\/csharp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=614"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ibex.tech\/csharp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=614"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}