How to make Acrobat XI splash screen at startup available?

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  1. Posts : 96
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    How to make Acrobat XI splash screen at startup available?


    As title, Thanks a lot.
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  2. Posts : 53,363
    Windows 10 Home x64
       #2

    Don't use Adobe myself, but it looks like the path is

    Edit> Preferences> General> Application Startup> Show Splash Screen

    A Guy
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  3. Posts : 96
    Windows 7 VL (64-bit)
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    A Guy said:
    Don't use Adobe myself, but it looks like the path is

    Edit> Preferences> General> Application Startup> Show Splash Screen

    A Guy
    Hi, invisible?
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  4. Posts : 53,363
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    Hmmm, sorry, even found this:

    How to make Acrobat XI splash screen at startup available?-mbo8n.jpg

    You do have the latest version version 10.1.1?

    Also found a registry change, but it is in the Policies section. If you attempt it, make a backup of your registry just in case

    Registry - Backup and Restore

    For those Windows users begging to have a way to hide the Welcome Screen, now you can - but not via the Acrobat UI - instead you must create a new Registry key (cWelcomeScreen) and a new DWORD value (bShowWelcomeScreen = 0):

    HKLM\SOFTWARE\Policies\Adobe\(product name)\(version)\FeatureLockDown\cWelcomeScreen\bShowWelcomeScreen = 0

    We'd have preferred to do it with a checkbox or preference, but it seems there are limits to what can be extracted from an engineer even with the best-quality thumbscrews.Setting it to 1 wakes the Welcome Screen up again, but as this key is within the HKLM "administration" hive, normal Windows users may not have access to it. There is no matching user-context key under HKCU.
    Source

    That is to turn it off, so you'd want

    HKLM\SOFTWARE\Policies\Adobe\(product name)\(version)\FeatureLockDown\cWelcomeScreen\bShowWelcomeScreen = 1

    A Guy
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  5. Posts : 96
    Windows 7 VL (64-bit)
    Thread Starter
       #5

    A Guy said:
    Hmmm, sorry, even found this:

    How to make Acrobat XI splash screen at startup available?-mbo8n.jpg

    You do have the latest version version 10.1.1?

    Also found a registry change, but it is in the Policies section. If you attempt it, make a backup of your registry just in case

    Registry - Backup and Restore

    For those Windows users begging to have a way to hide the Welcome Screen, now you can - but not via the Acrobat UI - instead you must create a new Registry key (cWelcomeScreen) and a new DWORD value (bShowWelcomeScreen = 0):

    HKLM\SOFTWARE\Policies\Adobe\(product name)\(version)\FeatureLockDown\cWelcomeScreen\bShowWelcomeScreen = 0

    We'd have preferred to do it with a checkbox or preference, but it seems there are limits to what can be extracted from an engineer even with the best-quality thumbscrews.Setting it to 1 wakes the Welcome Screen up again, but as this key is within the HKLM "administration" hive, normal Windows users may not have access to it. There is no matching user-context key under HKCU.
    Source

    That is to turn it off, so you'd want

    HKLM\SOFTWARE\Policies\Adobe\(product name)\(version)\FeatureLockDown\cWelcomeScreen\bShowWelcomeScreen = 1

    A Guy
    Thanks but you just missed that my version is XI(11.0) not X(10.1.1)
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  6. Posts : 640
    Windows 7 Ultimate x64
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    A Guy said:
    HKLM\SOFTWARE\Policies\Adobe\(product name)\(version)\FeatureLockDown\cWelcomeScreen\bShowWelcomeScreen = 1

    A Guy
    The welcome screen appears for me but I just done a quick check on this and it appears to work.

    The key didn't exist on my system but it might on yours. Find instructions here if it doesn't but change the DWORD Value to 1.
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  7. Posts : 96
    Windows 7 VL (64-bit)
    Thread Starter
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    Duzzy said:
    A Guy said:
    HKLM\SOFTWARE\Policies\Adobe\(product name)\(version)\FeatureLockDown\cWelcomeScreen\bShowWelcomeScreen = 1

    A Guy
    The welcome screen appears for me but I just done a quick check on this and it appears to work.

    The key didn't exist on my system but it might on yours. Find instructions here if it doesn't but change the DWORD Value to 1.
    Created but no luck...
    http://s16.postimage.org/dtbv19dpv/image.jpg
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  8. Posts : 640
    Windows 7 Ultimate x64
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    Sorry I tested it with Adobe Reader XI not Acrobat XI. A friend has a copy of Acrobat X (10.1.4) which I tried and works as well so they must of changed something with XI.

    Normally the Welcome Screen is shown by default so if no one else here can help I could only suggest uninstalling and reinstalling Acrobat or try a repair install otherwise you may have better luck by contacting Adobe or using the Adobe forums.

    PS. You might want to confirm if it is the Welcome screen you want or the Splash screen, I was presuming the Welcome screen as the splash screen is not useful.
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  9. Posts : 53,363
    Windows 10 Home x64
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    Ironically, most searches found people who wanted to disable it, lol. A Guy
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  10. Posts : 640
    Windows 7 Ultimate x64
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    A Guy said:
    Ironically, most searches found people who wanted to disable it, lol. A Guy
    That's true and just made me think if it is the welcome screen the main use of that is for opening recent files which you could say is solved on Windows 7 by the use of Jump Lists if you pin it to the Task Bar, Start Menu or frequently use it and it's on the list of frequently used programs, unless you like the messages from Adobe or it's on different OS.
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