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From: gkrone@pcserver2.naitc.com (Gary Krone)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms
Subject: Re: Can I Eliminate the Opening *Windows* screen?
Message-ID: <1991Jan31.173417.24634@pcserver2.naitc.com>
Date: 31 Jan 91 17:34:17 GMT
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In article <1991Jan30.020155.16281@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu> brian@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu (Brian Hoffman) writes:
>In article <9361@dog.ee.lbl.gov> sisu@ux1.lbl.gov (judy stirkkinen) writes:
>>In article <RN.94@mts.ucs.UAlberta.CA> userCOOP@mts.ucs.UAlberta.CA (Wes Cooper) writes:
>>>Is there something I can do, perhaps to my 
>>>WIN.INI file, to eliminate the *WINDOWS* 
>>>screen at the beginning of a Windows session?
>>>                  Thanks,
>>>                  Wes Cooper
>>
>>Yeah, you need to get your hands on a Hex editor and look through the "win.com"
>>file for the word "LOGO". when you find it, replace one of the characters with
>>something else. (ie: change the "L" to a "Z" or somethin'. Windows won't be
>>able to find "ZOGO", so it'll bypass that part and start you off in the
>>desktop.
>>	      rob@cad4.lbl.gov
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>Or you could just type "win :".  That will do it.
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>|Brian Hoffman								|
>|brian@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu						|
>|Quote: "Here comes the quiet life, again" -- Japan                     |

I tried the colon trick and ran into some memory problems.  Restarting 
without the colon cleared them up.

Gary Krone
gkrone@bbs.naitc.com