It is already there:
http://www.microsoft.com/office/ork/2003/journ/preventmultiplewelcome.htm
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Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]
Post all replies to the group to keep the discussion intact. Due to
the (insert latest virus name here) virus, all mail sent to my personal
account will be deleted without reading.
After searching google.groups.com and finding no answer, Eric Lawrence
[MSFT] asked:
| Looks like this is a common request. An entry will be made in the
| Office
| Resource Kit shortly.
|
|
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\11.0\Outlook\Setup\CreateWelcome
|
| DWORD Value = FFFFFFFF
|
|
|
| will suppress the welcome message.
|
|
|
|
| || The text now appears to live in OUTLLIBR.DLL. I'm checking with the
|| developer to see if there's a policy to prevent creation, but I
|| didn't see
|| one.
||
|| Can you elaborate on why you'd like to suppress this message?
||
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|| Thanks,
||
|| Eric Lawrence
|| Program Manager
|| Assistance and Worldwide Services
||
|| This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no
| rights.
||
|| ||| Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook] wrote:
|||| I found this article for Outlook 2000 but I am not sure that the
|||| file location or the item exists in 2003:
||||
|||| How to Customize or Disable the Welcome Message
||||
|||
||
|
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;293870&Product=out2KOL2000:
||||
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|||| Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]
||||
|||| Post all replies to the group to keep the discussion intact. Due
|||| to
|||| the (insert latest virus name here) virus, all mail sent to my
|||| personal
|||| account will be deleted without reading.
||||
|||| After searching google.groups.com and finding no answer, Ken asked:
||||
||||| When I log into Outlook 2003 the first time I get the
||||| Welcome to Outlook Message. I need to be able to turn this
||||| feature off and have not found a method to do that. I
||||| looked at the Office Resource Kit, registry and
||||| Maintenance Wizard; but have not found any configuration
||||| settings to accomplish it. Anyone have any suggestions of
||||| where to look?
|||
||| This file does not seem to appear anywhere on the HD after
||| Office2003
|| Basic
||| Edition has been installed. Perhaps it appears after the
||| installation
| of
||| other Office Editions.
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||| Donald L McDaniel
||| Post all replies to the Newsgroup,
||| so that all may be informed.
||| Remove the obvious to reply by email.
||| +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
