Disable Office 2010 Splash Screens?

[DragonQ]

Does anyone know how to do this for files opened directly? There's a few sites with details about the /q and /e switches etc. for shortcuts but this isn't useful when you usually open files from Explorer.

I'm guessing there's a registry setting for it but I can't find any information through Google.

[menes]

Open regedit,

For Word 2003 files, go to:

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Word.Document.8\shell\Open\command]
change both to:
C:\\Program Files\\Microsoft Office\\Office14\\WINWORD.EXE\" /q /n \"%1\"

For Word 2007 and 2010 files, go to:

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Word.Document.12\shell\Open\command]
change both to:
C:\\Program Files\\Microsoft Office\\Office14\\WINWORD.EXE\" /q /n \"%1\"

For Excel 2003 files, go to:

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Excel.Sheet.8\shell\Open\command]
change both to:
C:\\Program Files\\Microsoft Office\\Office14\\EXCEL.EXE\" /e /dde

For Excel 2007 and 2010 files, go to:

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Excel.Sheet.12\shell\Open\command]
change both to:
C:\\Program Files\\Microsoft Office\\Office14\\EXCEL.EXE\" /e /dde

For Powerpoint 2003 files, go to:

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\PowerPoint.Slide.8\shell\Open\command]
change to:
C:\\PROGRA~1\\MICROS~2\\Office14\\POWERPNT.EXE /s \"%1\"

For Powerpoint 2007 and 2010 files, go to:

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\PowerPoint.Slide.12\shell\Open\command]
change to:
C:\\PROGRA~1\\MICROS~2\\Office14\\POWERPNT.EXE /s \"%1\"

[DragonQ]

Thanks, that seems to work perfectly!

[Tigramber]

For Word 2007 and 2010 files, go to:

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Word.Document.12\shell\Open\command]
change both to:
C:\\Program Files\\Microsoft Office\\Office14\\WINWORD.EXE\" /q /n \"%1\"

Ack! I have Word 2010 installed. I changed both the registry values (Default and command) to the above strings, and now Word documents don't open. "The parameter is incorrect." How do I get the values back? I can still open winword.exe and then open documents.

Of course, my file is in "Program Files (x86)" instead of" Program Files," so that might have something to do with it?

Thanks!

AJ

[tomah]

Ack! I have Word 2010 installed. I changed both the registry values (Default and command) to the above strings, and now Word documents don't open. "The parameter is incorrect." How do I get the values back? I can still open winword.exe and then open documents.

Of course, my file is in "Program Files (x86)" instead of" Program Files," so that might have something to do with it?

Thanks!

AJ

You answered your own question. Change "Program Files" to "Program Files (x86)" and that should do it.

[akf]

Does disabling Office 2010 Splash Screens speed up the loading of Office 2010? Or, with splash screens enabled or not, Office 2010 will open in same amount of time upon left clicking the program?

[Tigramber]

You answered your own question. Change "Program Files" to "Program Files (x86)" and that should do it.

That didn't work. I repaired Office and it changed these registry values back to their original crazy values:
(Default) REG_SZ "C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Office\Office14\WINWORD.EXE" /n "%1"
command REG_MULTI_SZ ykG^V5!!!!!!!!!MKKSkWORDFiles>bi$T!V!0Z={Pk0vm~AZu /n "%1" C:\\Program Files (x86)\\Microsoft Office\\Office14\\WINWORD.EXE" /q /n \"%1\"

Since the "command" value is such a crazy thing, I bet I have to only modify the filepath and switches in that one instead of replacing the whole thing. What do you think? I'm scared to try!

Thanks for your help,

AJ

[Tigramber]

Definitely faster without the splash screens. I couldn't modify the Windows 7 pinned taskbar shortcuts that are put there automatically during the Office installation, so I created shortcuts to the same programs on the desktop, modified them with the switches (/q, /e, /s, etc.), dragged those to the taskbar and unpinned the default ones. Works great!

[tomah]

That didn't work. I repaired Office and it changed these registry values back to their original crazy values:
(Default) REG_SZ "C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Office\Office14\WINWORD.EXE" /n "%1"
command REG_MULTI_SZ ykG^V5!!!!!!!!!MKKSkWORDFiles>bi$T!V!0Z={Pk0vm~AZu /n "%1" C:\\Program Files (x86)\\Microsoft Office\\Office14\\WINWORD.EXE" /q /n \"%1\"

Since the "command" value is such a crazy thing, I bet I have to only modify the filepath and switches in that one instead of replacing the whole thing. What do you think? I'm scared to try!

Thanks for your help,

AJ

Was there a reason why you did a repair on Office?

Anyways, try modifying your Default to "C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Office\Office14\WINWORD.EXE" /q /n "%1"

I'm not sure what to make of your Command line, as the default would not have included the extra "C:\\Program Files (x86)\\Microsoft Office\\Office14\\WINWORD.EXE" /q /n \"%1\" at the end. Try deleting the " C:\\Program Files (x86)\\Microsoft Office\\Office14\\WINWORD.EXE" /q /n \"%1\" from the end, and then add in as mentioned in Default above (/q) and see what happens.

So, change command from: REG_MULTI_SZ ykG^V5!!!!!!!!!MKKSkWORDFiles>bi$T!V!0Z={Pk0vm~AZu /n "%1" C:\\Program Files (x86)\\Microsoft Office\\Office14\\WINWORD.EXE" /q /n \"%1\"

to: REG_MULTI_SZ ykG^V5!!!!!!!!!MKKSkWORDFiles>bi$T!V!0Z={Pk0vm~AZu /n /q "%1"

Also, I noticed that menes has an uneven amount of quotes in all of his change(s).

[Tigramber]

Was there a reason why you did a repair on Office?

Anyways, try modifying your Default to "C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Office\Office14\WINWORD.EXE" /q /n "%1"

I repaired Office because after changing the values on 8/26, I couldn't open any saved Word documents. I could open the program and then navigate via the File Open menu, but any saved documents couldn't be opened by double-clicking their icon. So, repairing Office rewrote the original registry values back again, which I posted on 8/28.

Changing the registry values to the ones you have suggested doesn't seem to help. I still get the splash screen of "Starting" when loading Winword... what a waste of time these screens are...

Anyways, thanks for your help.

As a workaround, I replaced the default shortcut on the taskbar with a shortcut of my own, pointing to: "C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Office\Office14\WINWORD.EXE" /q


And this disables the splash screen for new documents, at least.