How to get rid of the Welcome Center for good

The Welcome Center appears for the first two times you boot up Windows until it gives you the option in form of a checkbox to never show it again. This is in fact by design to help you get Windows Vista customised and setup to the way you want it.

To stop the Welcome Center from ever appearing:

  1. Go to Start, Run (or press Windows key + R) and type in regedit then press OK.
  2. Navigate to HKEY_CURRENT_USER > Software > Microsoft > Windows > CurrentVersion > Run.
  3. Right click in the right hand pane and select New > DWORD.
  4. Enter in WindowsWelcomeCenter then press OK.
  5. Double click on it and set the value to a - (minus simple/hyphen) then press OK.

Viola - the Welcome Center will never bother you again.

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