Disabling the startup / splash screen

[Landor]

I have searched the forum, but haven't found an answer.

Is there a way to disable or prevent the startup/splash screen from appearing? The reason is that it interferes with other work that I'm doing when I start up FC.

[ralfso]

I've never seen a splash-screen from Freecommander and I searched the settings, but there's no entry for a splash-screen.

Can you make a screenshot?

[a user]

FreeCommander has recently been released as a portable application at URL: portableApps dot com (not allowed to post true URLs as I am a newbie).

That version has a splash screen. This is the version I have installed on my PC and I have just disabled the splash screen that was irritating.

If this is also your version, in order to disable the splash screen, go to the subfolder ..\Other\Source of your freeCommander installation folder, then in that folder edit the file FreePortableCommander.ini and change the DisableSplashScreen entry to DisableSplashScreen=true

Done.

[Landor]

Thanks for the suggestion. You're right, I'm using the FreeCommander Portable version.

However, I implemented your suggestion, but it didn't work. I even re-booted my machine. Does 'true' have to be all upper case or lower case or what?

[a user]

Thanks for the suggestion. You're right, I'm using the FreeCommander Portable version.

However, I implemented your suggestion, but it didn't work. I even re-booted my machine. Does 'true' have to be all upper case or lower case or what?

Apologies, I forgot an essential step: After editing FreeCommanderPortable.ini, copy it to the portable FreeCommander base directory where the launcher "FreeCommanderPortable.exe" is.

I don't think the strings in the ini file are case sensitive, but I wrote "true" all lowercase and it works.

[Landor]

Perfect. Thanks for you knowledge and time