preventing the welcome center from showing

how do disable the welcome center from showing?
is this done with the file oobe.xml.
actually what i would like to do is start vista and start running
a custom shell (not explorer.exe) again would oobe.xml
be involved in that process or is there a "bigger" idea
that would cause vista to skip
the login screen, the welcome center and just move to running
the shell as designated by the registry entry:

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion
\Winlogon]
"Shell"="Explorer.exe" (or something else)

thanks
black_13

1. Start Regedit.

2. Navigate through HKEY_CURRENT_USER, Software, Microsoft, Windows,
CurrentVersion, Run.

3. Right click on the WindowsWelcomeCenter key and select Delete.

The next time you restart the Welcome Center will be gone.

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"black_13" <> wrote in message
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> how do disable the welcome center from showing?
> is this done with the file oobe.xml.
> actually what i would like to do is start vista and start running
> a custom shell (not explorer.exe) again would oobe.xml
> be involved in that process or is there a "bigger" idea
> that would cause vista to skip
> the login screen, the welcome center and just move to running
> the shell as designated by the registry entry:
>
> [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion
> \Winlogon]
> "Shell"="Explorer.exe" (or something else)
>
> thanks
> black_13

Thanks.

On Jan 10, 1:18*pm, "Andre Da Costa[ActiveWin]" <andre...@hotmail.com>
wrote:
> 1. Start Regedit.
>
> 2. Navigate through HKEY_CURRENT_USER, Software, Microsoft, Windows,
> CurrentVersion, Run.
>
> 3. Right click on the WindowsWelcomeCenter key and select Delete.
>
> The next time you restart the Welcome Center will be gone.
>
> Advertisement
> --
> *Andre
> Blog:http://adacosta.spaces.live.com
> My Vista Quickstart Guide:http://adacosta.spaces.live.com/blog/cns!E8E5CC039D51E3DB!9709.entry"black_13" <jjosb...@gmail.com> wrote in message
>
> news:d4934f83-3c5f-430c-8afe-...
>
>
>
> > how do disable the welcome center from showing?
> > is this done with the file oobe.xml.
> > actually what i would like to do is start vista and start running
> > a custom shell (not explorer.exe) again would oobe.xml
> > be involved in that process or is there a "bigger" idea
> > that would cause vista to skip
> > the login screen, the welcome center and just move to running
> > the shell as designated by the registry entry:
>
> > [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion
> > \Winlogon]
> > "Shell"="Explorer.exe" (or something else)
>
> > thanks
> >black_13- Hide quoted text -
>
> - Show quoted text -

i have tried that but