"Welcome to Windows" = ANNOYING!

[cyberthug]

searched.. checked google.. can't find much on this...

trying to get rid of the "Welcome to Windows" screen...

any one done this successfully?

thanx.

[prathapml]

Is a registry flag.

Pretty simple, not very difficult to solve. Will post later, about which exact key it is. If you find it first, do post it.

[kukris]

I got this in my msbatch.inf

[Install]
AddReg=RunOnce.BatchDelay,Run.Installed.Components,Skip.PCMCIA.Wizard,Registry.WinUpdate,RegistrySet
tings,OPKInstall

[OPKInstall]

; The line below deletes Welcome applet for factory configuration portion
; of Express setup so it doesn't pop up over the Notepad message.
HKCU,Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Tips,show,1,00
; The line below turns off the user logon going into Windows (needed for
; factory configuration portion of Express setup).
HKLM,"SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Network\Real Mode  Net","autologon",1,00000000

[RunOnce.BatchDelay]
HKLM,%KEY_RUNONCE%,BatchRun2,,"%25%\rundll.exe setupx.dll,InstallHinfSection Delete.Welcome 4 %17%\msbatch.inf"

[Delete.Welcome]
DelReg=Registry.Welcome

[Registry.Welcome]
HKLM,Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run,Welcome,,

[Delete.Regwiz]
AddReg=Registry.Regwiz

[Registry.Regwiz]
HKLM,Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Welcome\Regwiz,@,1,01,00,00,00
HKLM,Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion,RegDone,1,01,00,00,00

[Strings]
KEY_RUNONCE="SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\RunOnce"
KEY_INSTALLEDCOMPS="SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Active Setup\Installed Components"
KEY_IEXPLORERMAIN="Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Main"

I hope I didn't miss anything. Anyway autostart entries or services are under the following Registry keys:

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

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Services]

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\ServicesOnce]

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\RunOnce]

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\RunOnceEx]

Once you located an entry you want to remove create a reg file like this:

REGEDIT4

;Removes Task Monitor
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run]
"TaskMonitor"=-