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Disable The Windows Mail Splash Screen In Vista

Posted by on Oct 5, 2007 | 4 Comments

For those of you who use Windows Mail, you’ll notice that a splash screen appears on your desktop as the program is opening. Some of you may not mind the waiting for the splash screen to disappear while others may want to disable it. Personally, I don’t see the point in having the splash screen there. Is it to remind me that I just launched the program?

If you want to disable the Windows Mail splash screen, you’ll need to add a new entry to the Windows Registry using the following steps.

  1. Open the registry.
  2. Navigate to the following registry key: HKEY_CURRENT_USER \ Software \ Microsoft \ Windows Mail.
  3. Click Edit and click Add Value.
  4. Add a DWORD value called NoSplash.
  5. Double click the new DWORD value and change the value to 1. Click OK.
  6. Close the registry.

[tags]vista, vista tips, windows vista[/tags]

  • philip

    i wish to turn off the vista mail account the only account i have is yahoo
    i dont wish to open another account but when i reply to online web pages been asked to set up microsoft user account.so i cant reply to onlineemails
    thankyou

  • Frank Hussar

    Dear Diane,
    Just a quick thanks for your very simple and concise instructions on how to disable the splash screen for Windows Mail in Vista. There are, as you can imagine, numerous instructions, but yours was the easiest to follow, with the desired result.
    Thanks again,
    Frank Hussar
    Old Hickory, TN
    fhussar@comcast.net

  • Terry Grant

    Hi,at step 3 above I have no @add value’ on the edit programm.What do suggest,i really would like to get rid of the pesky splash screen!
    Thanks,
    TG.

  • Awn

    Terry,
    In the Edit Menu look in the submenu under the new option for DWORD value