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re: How to disable mcafee 8 virusscan splash screen in Windows XP
Saturday, October 23, 2004 at 12:31 pm
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Posted by Peter Hese (1 messages posted)


For McAfee 8, make the following change in your registry:

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run]
"MCAgentExe"="c:\\PROGRA~1\\mcafee.com\\agent\\mcagent.exe /nosplash

(adding the /nosplash parameter to the mcafee agent executable)





On Monday, June 24, 2002 at 8:37 pm, pc helper guy wrote:
>i have a question about get
>rid of irritating splash screens
:


>
>in mcafee virusscan 6, is the splash screen for vshield loading with windows xp
>causing problems or delay?, edit this
>simple registry entry and the vshield splash
>screen will no longer load at startup in windows xp home or pro only.
>
>first click start, then run
>in the open line type: regedit
>hit enter and registry editor should start.
>
>now goto this registry entry:
>
>hkey_local_machine\software\network associates\tvd\shared components\on access scanner\vshield\system
>scan\general
>
>in the right window, the last registry entry key should be --- > bskipsplash, double
>click on
>this value name to go into edit mode, then
>where the value data says "0" -zero, change that to "1". then just exit the registry
>editor
>and reboot, and now you'll notice the mcafee vshield splash screen doesn't pop up
>when windows xp starts now, vshield just quietly
>loads in the background and your windows xp system will start even faster!
>
>--good luck!!
>
>
>




Written in response to:
How to disable mcafee 6 virusscan splash screen in Windows XP (pc helper guy: Monday, June 24, 2002 at 8:37 pm)

Responses to this message:
*re: How to disable mcafee 8 virusscan splash screen in Windows XP (SaxDaddy: Thursday, January 13, 2005 at 1:39 pm)
*re: How to disable mcafee 8 virusscan splash screen in Windows XP (Paul Kinnane: Sunday, January 23, 2005 at 9:16 am)
*re: How to disable mcafee 8 virusscan splash screen in Windows XP (Idiotboy: Thursday, December 1, 2005 at 5:44 pm)
*re: How to disable mcafee 8 virusscan splash screen in Windows XP (matts: Wednesday, February 8, 2006 at 12:57 am)

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-How to disable mcafee 6 virusscan splash screen in Windows XP (pc helper guy: Mon, Jun 24, 2002, 8:37 pm)
-re: How to disable mcafee 6 virusscan splash screen in Windows XP (John: Thu, Dec 12, 2002, 4:40 am)
-re: How to disable mcafee 7 virusscan splash screen in Windows XP (Lucien Janssens: Mon, Aug 11, 2003, 1:24 pm)
-re: How to disable mcafee 7 virusscan splash screen in Windows XP (manual: Wed, Jan 28, 2004, 7:13 pm)
*re: How to disable mcafee 7 virusscan splash screen in Windows XP (Astrotrain: Tue, Feb 10, 2004, 2:58 pm)
-Window 2000 Professional (David Taylor: Thu, Mar 20, 2003, 7:38 am)
*Windows 2000 Professional (dave: Fri, Sep 12, 2003, 9:42 am)
-re: How to disable mcafee 8 virusscan splash screen in Windows XP (Peter Hese: Sat, Oct 23, 2004, 12:31 pm)
-re: How to disable mcafee 8 virusscan splash screen in Windows XP (SaxDaddy: Thu, Jan 13, 2005, 1:39 pm)
*re: How to disable mcafee 8 virusscan splash screen in Windows XP (c0rtex: Wed, Feb 7, 2007, 3:03 pm)
*re: How to disable mcafee 8 virusscan splash screen in Windows XP (Paul Kinnane: Sun, Jan 23, 2005, 9:16 am)
*re: How to disable mcafee 8 virusscan splash screen in Windows XP (Idiotboy: Thu, Dec 1, 2005, 5:44 pm)
*re: How to disable mcafee 8 virusscan splash screen in Windows XP (matts: Wed, Feb 8, 2006, 12:57 am)
-re: How to disable mcafee 8,5 Enterprise virusscan splash screen in Windows XP (Kyle: Tue, May 22, 2007, 10:24 am)
*re: How to disable mcafee 8,5 Enterprise virusscan splash screen in Windows XP (Kamal: Mon, Nov 26, 2007, 3:39 pm)
*re: How to disable mcafee 6 virusscan splash screen in Windows XP (Chris: Thu, Feb 28, 2008, 11:29 am)
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