I suppose you could just close your eyes while the program starts.

Or start Outlook with your monitor turned off?

On a more serious note...you're welcome to go to Connect
(http://connect.microsoft.com) and submit it as a feature request and
I'm sure the development team will give it the priority it deserves.
Personally I can think of a number of features I'd rather see them spend
their time on, but perhaps you will tap into a massive groundswell of
support for a switch to suppress the splash screen.

--
-Ben-
Ben M. Schorr, MVP
Roland Schorr & Tower
http://www.rolandschorr.com
http://www.officeforlawyers.com
Author - The Lawyer's Guide to Microsoft Outlook 2007:
http://tinyurl.com/5m3f5q



"Lyle" wrote in message
:

That is correct. Of course any PC is fully programable. My statement of the
obvious was simply a way of heading off MS MVP responses to similar queries
(regarding Office Live Communicator specifically) where the answer given was,
"impossible". Impossible is not an answer, but a denial of the facts of the
nature and purpose of the software in a PC.

"DL" wrote:


Any PC is fully programable
This is a user group & as such is not moderated in that way
I assume you refer to the Outllook 2007 small notice that appears for about
5 secs prior to fully loading?

"Lyle" wrote in message
...

This is not a performance or hang issue. It is possible to disable the
Outlook 2007 splash screen at program launch as this is a fully
programmable
PC. Regardless of the personal feelings of the forum moderators, I want
the
option of not advertising for Microsoft or any other vendor every time I
launch an application I've purchased the rights to use on my PC. Almost
every
other Office application has the ability to turn off useless splash
screens.
Now, how do we make this adjustment to Microsoft Office 2007?

Ben,

While your response has a useful component to it, did it need to
comptemptuously rank the value of my feature request? This is what I am
talking about. There is real arrogance indemic to a lot of Microsoft solution
development work and support. This kind of arrogance is what kills large
corporations. Microsoft just quietly laid off 5,000 workers. Perhaps judging
the value of a desired feature more inline with the frequency of requests and
desire for programatic standards versus whatever cool new tech we can throw
in there for the next release would help sales.

"Ben M. Schorr - MVP (OneNote)" wrote:

I suppose you could just close your eyes while the program starts.

Or start Outlook with your monitor turned off?

On a more serious note...you're welcome to go to Connect
(http://connect.microsoft.com) and submit it as a feature request and
I'm sure the development team will give it the priority it deserves.
Personally I can think of a number of features I'd rather see them spend
their time on, but perhaps you will tap into a massive groundswell of
support for a switch to suppress the splash screen.

--
-Ben-
Ben M. Schorr, MVP
Roland Schorr & Tower
http://www.rolandschorr.com
http://www.officeforlawyers.com
Author - The Lawyer's Guide to Microsoft Outlook 2007:
http://tinyurl.com/5m3f5q



"Lyle" wrote in message
:

That is correct. Of course any PC is fully programable. My statement of the
obvious was simply a way of heading off MS MVP responses to similar queries
(regarding Office Live Communicator specifically) where the answer given was,
"impossible". Impossible is not an answer, but a denial of the facts of the
nature and purpose of the software in a PC.

"DL" wrote:


Any PC is fully programable
This is a user group & as such is not moderated in that way
I assume you refer to the Outllook 2007 small notice that appears for about
5 secs prior to fully loading?

"Lyle" wrote in message
...

This is not a performance or hang issue. It is possible to disable the
Outlook 2007 splash screen at program launch as this is a fully
programmable
PC. Regardless of the personal feelings of the forum moderators, I want
the
option of not advertising for Microsoft or any other vendor every time I
launch an application I've purchased the rights to use on my PC. Almost
every
other Office application has the ability to turn off useless splash
screens.
Now, how do we make this adjustment to Microsoft Office 2007?

It doesn't get a lot of requests, certainly not as many as other feature
requests. Crossing off calendar squares at the end of each day gets a lot
more.

Note that when you file a report with connect, you should make a business
case for why it needs to be disabled.

--
Diane Poremsky [MVP - Outlook]
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"Lyle" wrote in message
...
Ben,

While your response has a useful component to it, did it need to
comptemptuously rank the value of my feature request? This is what I am
talking about. There is real arrogance indemic to a lot of Microsoft
solution
development work and support. This kind of arrogance is what kills large
corporations. Microsoft just quietly laid off 5,000 workers. Perhaps
judging
the value of a desired feature more inline with the frequency of requests
and
desire for programatic standards versus whatever cool new tech we can
throw
in there for the next release would help sales.

"Ben M. Schorr - MVP (OneNote)" wrote:

I suppose you could just close your eyes while the program starts.

Or start Outlook with your monitor turned off?

On a more serious note...you're welcome to go to Connect
(http://connect.microsoft.com) and submit it as a feature request and
I'm sure the development team will give it the priority it deserves.
Personally I can think of a number of features I'd rather see them spend
their time on, but perhaps you will tap into a massive groundswell of
support for a switch to suppress the splash screen.

--
-Ben-
Ben M. Schorr, MVP
Roland Schorr & Tower
http://www.rolandschorr.com
http://www.officeforlawyers.com
Author - The Lawyer's Guide to Microsoft Outlook 2007:
http://tinyurl.com/5m3f5q



"Lyle" wrote in message
:

That is correct. Of course any PC is fully programable. My statement of
the
obvious was simply a way of heading off MS MVP responses to similar
queries
(regarding Office Live Communicator specifically) where the answer
given was,
"impossible". Impossible is not an answer, but a denial of the facts of
the
nature and purpose of the software in a PC.

"DL" wrote:


Any PC is fully programable
This is a user group & as such is not moderated in that way
I assume you refer to the Outllook 2007 small notice that appears for
about
5 secs prior to fully loading?

"Lyle" wrote in message
...

This is not a performance or hang issue. It is possible to disable
the
Outlook 2007 splash screen at program launch as this is a fully
programmable
PC. Regardless of the personal feelings of the forum moderators, I
want
the
option of not advertising for Microsoft or any other vendor every
time I
launch an application I've purchased the rights to use on my PC.
Almost
every
other Office application has the ability to turn off useless splash
screens.
Now, how do we make this adjustment to Microsoft Office 2007?

They laid off closer to 3,000 actually but it doesn't really matter if
they laid off 20,000....

....you're asking for them to devote development resources to make a
cosmetic change that hardly anybody asks for.

There are probably 50 features I'd rather see them spend time on than
giving users the ability to turn off the splash screen.

But if you're convinced that disabling the splash screen is the killer
feature that will save Microsoft then just post that suggestion on
Connect where you can solicit votes from like-minded users. If it gets
enough votes it will get a higher priority in the queue. The people
will have spoken. :-)

--
-Ben-
Ben M. Schorr, MVP
Roland Schorr & Tower
http://www.rolandschorr.com
http://www.officeforlawyers.com
Author - The Lawyer's Guide to Microsoft Outlook 2007:
http://tinyurl.com/5m3f5q



"Lyle" wrote in message
:

Ben,

While your response has a useful component to it, did it need to
comptemptuously rank the value of my feature request? This is what I am
talking about. There is real arrogance indemic to a lot of Microsoft solution
development work and support. This kind of arrogance is what kills large
corporations. Microsoft just quietly laid off 5,000 workers. Perhaps judging
the value of a desired feature more inline with the frequency of requests and
desire for programatic standards versus whatever cool new tech we can throw
in there for the next release would help sales.

"Ben M. Schorr - MVP (OneNote)" wrote:


I suppose you could just close your eyes while the program starts.

Or start Outlook with your monitor turned off?

On a more serious note...you're welcome to go to Connect
(http://connect.microsoft.com) and submit it as a feature request and
I'm sure the development team will give it the priority it deserves.
Personally I can think of a number of features I'd rather see them spend
their time on, but perhaps you will tap into a massive groundswell of
support for a switch to suppress the splash screen.

--
-Ben-
Ben M. Schorr, MVP
Roland Schorr & Tower
http://www.rolandschorr.com
http://www.officeforlawyers.com
Author - The Lawyer's Guide to Microsoft Outlook 2007:
http://tinyurl.com/5m3f5q



"Lyle" wrote in message
:


That is correct. Of course any PC is fully programable. My statement of the
obvious was simply a way of heading off MS MVP responses to similar queries
(regarding Office Live Communicator specifically) where the answer given was,
"impossible". Impossible is not an answer, but a denial of the facts of the
nature and purpose of the software in a PC.

"DL" wrote:



Any PC is fully programable
This is a user group & as such is not moderated in that way
I assume you refer to the Outllook 2007 small notice that appears for about
5 secs prior to fully loading?

"Lyle" wrote in message
...


This is not a performance or hang issue. It is possible to disable the
Outlook 2007 splash screen at program launch as this is a fully
programmable
PC. Regardless of the personal feelings of the forum moderators, I want
the
option of not advertising for Microsoft or any other vendor every time I
launch an application I've purchased the rights to use on my PC. Almost
every
other Office application has the ability to turn off useless splash
screens.
Now, how do we make this adjustment to Microsoft Office 2007?

Microsoft just quietly laid off 5,000 workers.

Quietly? Uh. No, it wasn't very quiet. It was on pretty much every wire
I listen to, and that's not speaking as an MVP. In fact, strictly speaking,
any MVP conversation I had with MS that involved the layoffs was as timely
as if I drove from Boston to Concord today and shouted 'The British are Coming!'

Heck, you even pointed out you read about it in the NYT. How 'quiet' is
something when it lands in the NYT?

--
f.h.
Microsoft Outlook MVP