Hide the Windows Vista Welcome Screen
I know for most of you this is a very simple tip, but I've received a number of requests for understanding what will make this screen go away for good, because otherwise it loads up every time you start up your computer.
There's a small checkbox at the bottom left hand corner of the Welcome window. Removing the checkbox from this will prevent it from reappearing at startup next time.
If you want to get back to the Welcome Center, just go to Control Panel, System and Maintenance. You could also just type welcome into the start menu search box.
The Geek is the founder of How-To Geek and a geek enthusiast. When he's not coming up with great how-to articles, he's probably writing at his personal blog. This article was written on 12/31/69 and tagged with: Windows Vista, Vista Tips & Tweaks
I uncheck that darn box every time i start up and the next time i start up it is right back.
I cannot remove the Welcome screen for Guest. There is no ckeck mark shown to allow this. Who wants to be a guest!
Hey! I took your advice (for disabling Vista Welcome Center). When I did try to uncheck the box at the bottom, it still would come back everytime with the box checked again. Also, I looked on another site that said to go to regedit and delete the welcome center files under Run. When I did that the welcome center still comes back after restarting my computer, and now the check box is not at the bottom.
I feel like my computer has a glitch in it(or an evil spirit!) This PC came with Vista already loaded onto it. (Compaq Presario.) I already deleted it from the administrator account (that is required in order to change anything,) but it didn't delete them from the user accounts. The welcome center files get deleted, but then magically reappear next time the computer restarts. I don't get it. I tried to search for all the welcome center files so that I could eradicate them all, but it only brings up one, though I know others exist. What do you suggest I do. (Please really investigate, before answering, 'cause this isn't as simple as it first appears.)
Same here. It's like a song that's stuck in my head, it keeps coming back!
Try this….
start
run
gpedit.msc
user configuration
admin templates
click on windows explorer
3rd option from the top in the right pane
enable
you should learn your left from your right (look again at your screenshot, dummy!)
@sarcasmo:
Doh!
I guess writing articles at 3am is hazardous to the content =)
Dear Geek:
I tried start, then run
then gpedit.msc, several times.
I keep getting the message "windows cannot find gpedit.msc"
welcome screen: ruins my whole day.
Just another little vista absuridty that makes this the most obnozious o/s yet.
Any other ideas?
HD
Hi all!
That is Welcome Center, not Welcome Screen!
But I'd like to turn off Welcome Screen. How can I turn it off?
(At the start the Accounts is listed on Welcome Screen. Here can I choose the user.)
Thanx. Csaba
You can delete the welcome center program by finding the program C:\Windows\System32\oobefldr.dll ShowWelcomeCenter
Just Delete oobefldr.dll and I promise it will work because thats the welcome center.
your welcome!
I had the same problem and gpedit worked… Microsoft software is just plain pathetic. How would anybody figure this out without google!
hello. earlier i had windows vista on my computer, and then i downloaded office onto it. After this, at the logon screen, it just shows a big blank box where my icon used to be. I also have to enter in the name of my account, instead of just choosing it from the icons representing the different user accounts. is there a way i can change this so I can choose from a list of usernames, like I used to with windows xp?
Soz,
this alldepends on which version of Vista you happen ot be running, It works on my vista ultimate, it should also work on buisness and enterprise, As for the 2 home editions….I dont know what to say about those,
How can move the thumbnail above the user account name when log on to vista?
Daryl,
I've tried deleting the file, but my computer say I don't have permission to do so. Any advice you could provide on gaining permission to delete this program would be *greatly* appreciated.
Tyler
Try logging on as an administrator.
jcgriff2
JC,
It took a bit of doing, but I finally figured out how to give myself an administrator account. Now I have to enter a password every time I want to use the computer, and I STILL can't delete the Welcome Center! Is there a special administrator account which I require, or is it just part of the evil of Vista that the Welcome Center cannot be done away with?
Tyler
Hey, do you all know that there is a little check box at the bottom left hand corner of the welcome center that says "run at start up"? Check that box off and it should stop running up.
emJeF- that is what the original post is about. I think peopel are saying this doesn't work.
Anyway, even if you get it to stop running at start up, for some reason (for me at least) it will happen any time you type "c:" into the run menu. Why on earth would anybody want that to happen?? How can you just kill this thing completely and have it never show up?
Hi, i was looking to get rid of the welcome center,i have it disabled from starting up but i want it gone completely, i tried Daryls suggestion, but when i try to delete it i get the usual "you need to confirm this action " so choose continue and get the "windows needs your permission to continue " which i agree to, then instead of it deleting,it comes up with a box saying i dont have permission to perform this action, how do i get round that? if i right click on the file and choose properties- security,under group or user names it has system first, then me ,then users(mypc\users) then trusted installer,do i need to chamge anything here do you think, this is new ground for me,lol
Help people, I still cannot stop the welcome center from starting up. I check the box off every single time, go to regedit to delete it, and even try disabling it at msconfig from startup with no luck. I also tried deleting oobefldr.dll but I can't, do I need to login in safe mode to do it?