Disabling the Welcome Center

Fortunately, if you dont like the Welcome Center you canjust clear the Run at Startup
check box in the bottom-left corner to disable it. There are also extreme approaches to
disabling it by a Registry entry. Its totally unnecessary, but very fun to know anyway.

Note that in this tip, OOBE stands for out-of-box experience, which is defined by
the users first contact with a software application. So, in this case, upon startup the
oobefldr.dll is executed, which is the .dll for the Welcome Center.
You could also open a command prompt in elevated Administrative permissions, by
going to the Start orb, under All Programs, Accessories, right-click the command prompt
and select Run as Administrator and run the following command to delete that key:

reg delete HKCR\CLSID\{FD6905CE-
952F-41F1-9A6F-135D9C6622CC}
You can also type reg /? from the command
line to see some of the other options, but we
will consider more Registry edits later in the
book.
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