Splash Screen at startup..

[CharlieCharlie]

Hi all

Using the latest version as x64 portable  (15.4).

After MC showed that a new version was available I updated MC to said version.
Trying to run MC after the upgrade (which seemed to be successful - in that I didn't receive an error message), resulted in a virus warning from F-Secure.
But installing the new version from scratch solved that just fine (the only downside was that I had to enter all my settings again, but that's not the problem either  )

What's the problem is though, is that the Splash Screen is now showing again.
With the former versions (up from v 15.1 through updates which worked fine) I made an entry in MultiCommander.ini where I entered the line: HideSplash=1 (from an older forum post) and this worked fine.
But after the new installation I found said file in C:\Tools\MultiCommander\SessionConfig\Config\MultiCommander.ini - but entering the same line there (I did it under [Root] which is probably wrong anyway?), doesn't do anything.
I then went to C:\Tools\MultiCommander\Config\MultiCommander.xml and tried out to add this line to the following section:
  <startup>
    <autoloadtabsession value="1"/>
    <startminimized value="1"/>
    <PreventWindowsAutoScaling value="0"/>
    <HideSplash="1"/>
  </startup>
Which is probably wrong as well - but one tries things out before annoying you over here 
This resulted in a plethora of error messages a few of them referring to an entry under roaming\multicommander/ ... which most probably isn't correct as this is a portable install.
I now did remove all my alterations and MC does work just fine but keeps it's splash screen ontop of all other windows for at least 30seconds, which is a bit annoying as I have put MC in the startup folder.

Thanks for helping me out.

Kind regards from Basel, Switzerland!
Charles

[GaryM]

Hi Charles,

I use the portable version in my WinPE images, and I just tested MultiCommander v15.4 and saw behavior unchanged from previous versions. I think you and I may have seen the same old post showing how to suppress the splash screen, but in your recent transition you just got the directory wrong. The full file path you should use is...
"C:\Tools\MultiCommander\SessionConfig\Misc\MultiCommander.ini"

With a fresh portable version, you'll have to create that new "Misc" folder and its "MultiCommander.ini" file. I'm not sure of the significance of the "wp" entry, but here are the full contents of that file from my WinPE image:

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[Root]
wp=LAAAAAIAAAADAAAA/////////////////////4IAAACCAAAA4gMAANcCAAA=
HideSplash=1


[Mathias (Author)]

For portable the values you add should be the .ini file.. the ini files represent the values that MC normally stores in the Registry.


wp = windows position,     encoded values for placement and size of window at startup.. (save from where it was closed)

[CharlieCharlie]

Hi Gary and Mathias

Many thanks for your help which works like a charm. Much appreciated!

Did I miss the relevant documentation somewhere?
It was this rather old post on the forum you mentioned, Gary, which threw me off by 'using' the MultiCommander.ini file in
C: Tools\MultiCommander\SessionConfig\Config\MultiCommander.ini and I never looked in the 'Misc' subdirectory....

Have a nice Easter, you all!

Charles