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Disable Windows Welcome Center.

This setting can disable the display of Welcome Center screen, when you log on to Windows.

Tweak for : Windows Vista

Description:

In Windows Vista, the Welcome Center screen is called every time you start Windows. This is helpful for first-time Windows users who can easily undertake common tasks and configure their Windows settings, in a convenient time. The Welcome Center is designed to help users complete their important setup tasks and get to know their PC, but this quickly gets annoying.

To avoid the Welcome Center screen appear on your screen at each login, disable the feature.

For this, go to Start > Run menu, enter “regedit” and navigate to the registry path listed below. Now, right-click on the String value “WindowsWelcomeCenter”, in the right panel, and delete it.

However, if you want to enable the feature back, add the String value with the same name and change its value data to “rundll32.exe oobefldr.dll,ShowWelcomeCenter”.

The changes take effect after a restart or logoff.

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Registry Entry Details:

Registry Entry 1 :

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run\]

Key Type :

Current User

Value Name :

WindowsWelcomeCenter

Data Type :

REG_SZ (String Value)

Enabled Value :

Disabled value :

Other value :

rundll32.exe oobefldr.dll,ShowWelcomeCenter

Value Action :

Deleted

Steps ScreenShots:

Apply registry settings according below given steps of screenshots with related changes.

Windows Welcome Centre is disabled to run automatically on startup.

Windows Welcome Centre is enabled by default to run automatically on startup.

First, click the 'Start' button, and select 'Run'. In the resulting dialog box, type 'regedit'.

Next, go to [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run\] and right click on the String value 'WindowsWelcomeCenter' and finally delete it to disable Windows Welcome Center.

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