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re: Question about 'Get Rid of Irritating Splash Screens'
Saturday, April 21, 2007 at 8:48 pm
Windows Me Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by Amaury Laporte
(1 messages posted)
I tried this, but it doesn't help, I still get zonealarm's annoying pop-up on start-up
:(.
I don't have it in my startup folder, so I had to go through regedit. Is there
another technique that might work?
Thanks!!
Amaury
On Thursday, May 15, 2003 at 8:03 am, Stephen wrote:
>
>WOW!! Thanks a lot Frank (and Dori, too). For such a simple task, disabling the
splash
>is certainly a time and stress saver!
>
>I'm not sure, but appending the -nopopup -nosplash parameters can also be applied
>to many other--if not all--programs that have a splash screen! I tried this trick
>out on my free antivirus software, Antivir Personal Edition, and it worked!
>
>I'd like to add a useful tip or two to this post.
>
>1) When modifying a shortcut that's in the startup folder (ex: Zonalarm), I noticed
>that the -nopopup -nosplash parameters are appended outside the parentheses that
>enclose the full path to the program. For example:
> "C:\Program Files\Zone Labs
> \ZoneAlarm\zonealarm.exe" -nopopup -nosplash
>
>2) This little trick is not limited to shortcuts in the startup folder (which can
>also be accessed simply by selecting Start, Programs, Startup). For example, programs
>that use a registry entry to automatically start can be tweaked as well. Typically,
>these program's will have an entry in the HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\
>Windows\CurrentVersion\Run
>section. By using regedit, you can modify this key by appending the -nopopup -nosplash
>parameters. But, as usual, if you're going to manually edit something in the registry,
>be careful. ;-)
>
>Once again, thanks ppl.
>----------------------------------------------------
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