diff --git a/src/components/LogoV2/AnimatedAsterisk.tsx b/src/components/LogoV2/AnimatedAsterisk.tsx
index 116f9083..7fb9c8c0 100644
--- a/src/components/LogoV2/AnimatedAsterisk.tsx
+++ b/src/components/LogoV2/AnimatedAsterisk.tsx
@@ -20,7 +20,9 @@ export function AnimatedAsterisk({
   // Read prefersReducedMotion once at mount — no useSettings() subscription,
   // since that would re-render whenever settings change.
   const [reducedMotion] = useState(() => getInitialSettings().prefersReducedMotion ?? false);
-  const [done, setDone] = useState(reducedMotion);
+  // Skip animation on Windows — 60 re-renders in 3s competes with stdin processing
+  // and causes keyboard freeze on CMD/PowerShell (issues #228, #205).
+  const [done, setDone] = useState(reducedMotion || process.platform === 'win32');
   // useAnimationFrame's clock is shared — capture our start offset so the
   // sweep always begins at hue 0 regardless of when we mount.
   const startTimeRef = useRef<number | null>(null);
diff --git a/src/entrypoints/cli.tsx b/src/entrypoints/cli.tsx
index c82a0bb2..39614f19 100644
--- a/src/entrypoints/cli.tsx
+++ b/src/entrypoints/cli.tsx
@@ -416,7 +416,7 @@ async function main(): Promise<void> {
   }
 
   // No special flags detected, load and run the full CLI
-  if (process.env.OPENCLAUDE_ENABLE_EARLY_INPUT === '1') {
+  if (process.env.OPENCLAUDE_DISABLE_EARLY_INPUT !== '1') {
     const {
       startCapturingEarlyInput
     } = await import('../utils/earlyInput.js');
diff --git a/src/ink/components/App.tsx b/src/ink/components/App.tsx
index 7651423a..c75dec7e 100644
--- a/src/ink/components/App.tsx
+++ b/src/ink/components/App.tsx
@@ -229,12 +229,12 @@ export default class App extends PureComponent<Props, State> {
         stopCapturingEarlyInput();
         stdin.ref();
         stdin.setRawMode(true);
-        stdin.resume();
         if (this.stdinMode === 'data') {
           stdin.addListener('data', this.handleDataChunk);
         } else {
           stdin.addListener('readable', this.handleReadable);
         }
+        stdin.resume();
         // Enable bracketed paste mode
         this.props.stdout.write(EBP);
         // Enable terminal focus reporting (DECSET 1004)