Delphi 10.3 Rio - remove the welcome page

Question

Is there a way to get rid of that annoying welcome page when you start the IDE ?

With some former versions you could have done it through the registry but I can find it for Rio. Tried renaming the folder 'welcome page' to something else but then I get the error - page not found. Is there a way to avoid this and just simply get rid of it ?

Answer 1

Putting an underscore in front of the package description stills works here.

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Embarcadero\BDS\20.0\Known IDE Packages

Ref: The Wiert Corner - Delphi packages I have disabled by prefixing their description with an underscore (and why)

Answer 2

Simple way of doing things :"C:\Program Files (x86)\Embarcadero\Studio\20.0\bin\bds.exe" -np -ns

-NP This removes Welcome Page. -NS This removes Starting screen.

Answer 3

This is actually Dave's Nottage suggestion which works quite well without having to meddle with the registry. If he wants he can post the answer. (In the bin folder of Delphi (typically C:\Program Files (x86)\Embarcadero\Studio\20.0\bin for Rio), rename startpageide260.bpl to something else – Dave Nottage ) Example :