OpenOffice.org: Disable the Splash Screen (for Windows)

Contributed by shamanstears March 5, 2007  
Tagged: Windows

If you would rather not have to see the OpenOffice.org splash screen each and every time you run the application,and would like to speed up the startup just a bit, then follow these steps to get around it:

1. Using Windows Explorer, navigate to the installation directory for OpenOffice (for example C:\Program Files\OpenOffice.org 2.1).

2. Open the program directory.

3. Locate soffice.ini and open it in Notepad.

4. Beneath [Bootstrap], change the value for Logo = from 1 to 0.

5. Save soffice.ini.

6. Close Notepad.

7. Restart OpenOffice.org.