Maybe you can bypass the starter window even in commercial.

Imagine making an exe in visual studio with winAPI which runs the game.exe from the path and then it creates a window without any titlebar, just an image of the game drawn on top of it and placed at the top list of active windows.. After the game runs, you could send a message to that window with SendMessage function from lite-c to terminate it in the window procedure of that exe made in visual studio.

It would be similar to the way some games show a picture of their own game in the desktop before it goes into fullscreen.

This might work, have not tried but I will do it now.