Office without Splash Screen(s)

[R. McCarty]

Having a few spare minutes today, I was reading up on some Microsoft
Office notes and found something I'd looked for in the past. A way to
disable Office (XP in my case) splash screens.

Because the default Office shortcuts are MSI Tokens, you have to create
direct shortcuts to the components (Winword, Powerpnt, Excel). You just
have to add a Command-Line Switch to the target.

( Such as...)
"C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Office10\Winword.Exe" /q

For Office XP/Front-Page/Publisher:
Excel.Exe /E
Frontpg.Exe /Q
Mspub.Exe ( Not known or unsupported)
Outlook.Exe (Not Known or unsupported)
Powerpnt.Exe /S
Winword.Exe /Q

For some reason, the same qualifier doesn't apply to each program. I believe
the documentation indicated support starting with Office 2000/Forward.

If anyone knows the Splash Screen qualifier to disable Outlook &
Publisher's
Splash Screens I'd appreciate the information.

The KB article that tipped me off to the /Q is found at:
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;210565

 

[Guest]

Hello,

I'm not sure why everyone hates splash screens..
I couldn't find a switch for Outlook... Although you can check out
http://www.digitallis.co.uk/pc/SplashKiller/index.html if they bother you so
much

Regards
Paul Mckenna

 

[R. McCarty]

They are just a visual distraction. Especially Adobe Reader and a few
others.
It just seems redundant, If I click OE, I know it's loading - why put up the
SS.

Thanks for the URL, I'll give it a look.

 

[Guest]

I guess some of us just need reassurance

They are just a visual distraction. Especially Adobe Reader and a few
others.
It just seems redundant, If I click OE, I know it's loading - why put up the
SS.

Thanks for the URL, I'll give it a look.

 

[DanS]

They are just a visual distraction. Especially Adobe Reader and a few
others.
It just seems redundant, If I click OE, I know it's loading - why put
up the SS.

Thanks for the URL, I'll give it a look.

<SNIP>

yes they _are_ just a visual distraction, and that is what they are meant
to be.

with acrobat reader, it list's modules that are loading as the program is
loading. if it wasn't there, user's would be asking 'why does acrobat
reader take 4 to 6 seconds to load ?'. a screen like this is not nearly as
annoying as a splash screen being shown that has no other purpose that to
show itself, when the screen itself is the only thing keeping the program
from fully opening.

also a form of advertising.

i wrote a program for a company once that wanted the splash screen shown
every time the app opens up. the problem was, the app loaded very quickly
and the splash was stopping the program from loading. so i added a progress
bar on it showing its 'loading percentage'. so while it is not doing
anything when the splash is shown, the progress bar gives the inpression
that it is.

 

[R. McCarty]

The one good thing about the new Adobe Reader 7.0 is that
once you disable the Splash, it loads in about a second or less.
I suppose that removing support for 9X/ME allows for more
efficient coding (?).

The one app that just takes forever to load is Easy CD Creator
6. Sometimes, it loads right up - other times you sit and watch
the Initialization Splash sit there for 5-8 Secs. It's like a watching
the wheels on a slot machine, you never know how it will startup.