How do I disable the splashscreen for all portable apps?
New: Kanri (Oct 9, '24), Platform 29.5.3 (Jun 27, '24)
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Read the Readme in
J:\PortableApps\AppnamePortable\Other\AppnamePortableSource
or:
goto
J:\PortableApps\AppnamePortable\Other\AppnamePortableSource.
There is a ini file.
Copy it to
J:\PortableApps\AppnamePortable
and schange the line
DisableSplashScreen=false
to
DisableSplashScreen=true.
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Will that disable the splash for every portable app with only changing one ini?
You have to do that for every App.
There is no way of disabling it for all Apps with one ini.
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"What about Love?" - "Overrated. Biochemically no different than eating large quantities of chocolate." - Al Pacino in The Devils Advocate
Let's hope there will be a tool or option from the suit in a future release.
(I personally am not fond of additional splashscreens added. They have no purpose I think (unless they show during loading or something). Would loved to have the PA suite exe show (or not) the splash))
Thanks for the answer.... I got now a lot of ini files to copy or change
The splash screens serve a purpose:
1. INSTANT USER FEEDBACK - They let the user know that the app is loading instantly. Even a relatively small app like Firefox can take 60 seconds or more to launch on a slow flash drive. Even OpenOffice.org, which has a splash screen, can take up to 30 seconds to have its own splash show on a slow drive (which is why the launcher has a short one of the same size that fades into it). Without instantaneous feedback, a user will click to launch an app again. Psychologically, it also makes the user think the app is launching faster.
2. DISTINGUISH FROM ORIGINAL - The splash screens also serve to distinguish the portable version from the original apps, so users know to come here first for portable support issues rather than bugging the base app's development teams. This keeps the additional support load off the app developers.
3. DISTINGUISH FROM OTHER PORTABLES - There are other portable app sites out there of varying quality. Heck, I've seen apps labeled as 'portable' that weren't portable at all and stored everything in the registry or the APPDATA directory on the local PC. Unlike other sites, all the apps here are verified to be truely portable. So, it's important to make the apps from here easily distinguishable from apps from other sites.
You're welcome to disable the splash for each app with an INI file. But it's on a per-app basis, just as it is with all locally installed software... though it is far easier in this case since disabling them works pretty much the same way for each app (whereas with local software sometimes it's an INI setting, sometimes it's a command line option, sometimes it's somewhere in the Options window, etc).
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Hi John,
I dont want to open a new topic, so I reply this old one:
I copy Simons request. Of course, I understand your purposes for the splashscreen. Anyway, if its possible to remove it from every App alone, I dont understand, why it shouldnt be able to remove it from every App together with one command. Sorry, thats making no sense to me.
Could you please explain that?
For me, I use firefox, portable and other portable apps very often a day, and its just kind a boring, to the same splash screen 50 times a day.
Just think about it.
Thanks! Atreiju
P.S.: Dont get me wrong. I like your Apps and i appreciate your effort very much!!! But if there are enough people out there, who want that feature, why not create it?
John, with your permisson, i would try to code a small app to change splashscreen settings global.
P.P.S.: I could even code it in delphi. Then it would be possible to integrate it into PAM later.