Ok, I don't know if anyone is interested in this, but I had been really annoyed at the Nero Splash Screen that flickers very quickly before the program starts. So I took things in my own hand and figured out a easy way to remove it. I used a program called ResHacker and opened the nero.exe file that is installed in my computer. Then under the folder of "bitmap", there are a couple of folders called NeroXPSplash. I deleted them all. Ok, not done yet. Now go to the folder called "Dialog" - you'll see another folder called IDD_AHEAD_SPLASHSCREEN - you click on sub-file "1033" and in the right side window change IDD_AHEAD_SPLASHSCREEN DIALOGEX 34, 22, 338, 182. It should look like this - IDD_AHEAD_SPLASHSCREEN DIALOGEX 0, 0, 0, 0. That's it. Save that .exe file and you're done. You may want to keep a backup of the original .exe just in case. But this works for me, and now, no more annoying Nero Splashscreen. Nero Micro looks better than ever for me! Cheers.