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Suppressing the BCB splash screen

c:> bcb.exe -ns

If you launch BCB with the -ns command line switch, the initial splash screen will not appear.

Note: Hiding the splash screen does not decrease the amount of time it takes to load BCB.

Note: The BCB splash screen can cause some buggy video drivers to crash. Historically, this has been a problem with S3 drivers. The -ns switch can help prevent these mysterious crashes. If BCB crashes on startup, you might want to try the -ns flag.

See Borland's tech note for more info on the S3 driver problem (note that Borland moves links around a lot, so the link may be invalid).

Note: There are several other options that you can pass to BCB.EXE. See the tip labeled 'Command line options for BCB' for more details.



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