Do not start the welcome screen

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This setting lets you disable the screening of welcome screen when Windows gets started for the first time.
Level: Recommended For Novice Users
Description:
Welcome screen is normally displayed each time the user logs on to windows 2000 or xp professional. For this, go to start > run menu, enter regedit and navigate to the registry path listed at serial # 1. Then, create a dword value name nowelcomescreen, if this value does not exist. Now, right-click and modify the value data box with 1 to enable the setting. Now, this modification is also required for all the users. So, navigate the registry path at sr.# 2. If the subkey \explorer is not present, create it as explained below. Then, create a dword value name nowelcomescreen, if this value does not exist. Now, right-click and modify the value data box with 1 to enable the setting. Close the registry. After restart, the changes take effect. Note: you can also start the "welcome screen" manually, but with this setting you can also prevent this. If you like to disable the "welcome screen" for all users, you can go to hkey_local_machine with the same subkeys When editing the registry it is highly recommended to run a quick scan for optimization, you can test your system now for free.




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First, click the 'Start' button, and select 'Run'. In the resulting dialog box, type "regedit".
Go to <b> [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policie s\Explorer\]</b>,right-click in the open area to create a DWORD Value with the name "NoWelcomeScreen" in "Explorer" key.
Next, right-click on "NoWelcomeScreen" and click on 'Modify'.
Finally, enter the value "1" (Base Hexadecimal) without quotation in he text box and click on 'OK'. Once you are done. After a restart or logoff, the changes take effect.


Registry Entries

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  • Path: [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer\]
  • Location: Current User
  • Value Name: NoWelcomeScreen
  • Data Type: DWORD (DWORD Value)
  • Enabled Value: 1
  • Disabled Value: 0
  • Action Type: Add an Entry
  • Path: [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\]
  • Location: Local Machine
  • Value Name: Explorer
  • Data Type: Key
  • Action Type: Add an Entry
  • Path: [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer\]
  • Location: Local Machine
  • Value Name: NoWelcomeScreen
  • Data Type: DWORD (DWORD Value)
  • Enabled Value: 1
  • Disabled Value: 0
  • Action Type: Add an Entry


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