Is there a way to remove the Welcome Screen

[navillus]

I want to remove the "Welcome to Foxit Reader" screen if possible. If not is there a way to remove the OnDemandCM button?

[christina]

Sorry, that's built into background, currently no option to remove it.

[dsergeant]

Note that it only appears if you open Foxit with no open file. If you double click on a pdf file and open it with Foxit you go straight there with no Welcome screen...

[Pestigor]

Well unfortunately the "welcome" screen really turned me off, as a matter of fact I spent at least 10 minutes digging around the program looking to turn this "feature" off. then I did a search and found this forum. I read a lot of pdf's so when I sit at my computer I start my pdf software and then I dig up my pdf's where I have them sorted. Basically I'm sort of set in my reading ways. This welcome screen immediately had a visceral effect on me and I basically wanted to go back to adobe where, while slow and clumsy at least they have the decency to assume I'm not a mouth breather and can find my pdf's all by myself :1_31:.Please give those of us that can tie our own shoes and find our own pdf's the option to remove the "training wheels" from the program.

Sorry if I come off snarky but I just got through reading how fast this program is and I was confronted with a screen I ALWAYS turn off on other programs. Sure I can just go into my voluminous document directories and sort through my pdf's but I'd much prefer to open the program and browse and only see the pdf and not see the other documents I keep in the same directory.

[Bionic-Badger]

Is this really such a big issue? It's not like the welcome screen is a wizard that prevents you from directly going to the File menu to access the recent files list. If you don't use it, it's nothing more than a background image for an otherwise grey box.

What would be more useful is if the recent files appeared in that welcome screen so we don't need to go to the file menu to find the list, much like Macromedia (now Adobe) design applications have. Currently, the welcome screen contains relatively useless buttons.

[christina]

Thanks Bionic. A good proposal ! It will be passed to our development team for refrences.

[Pestigor]

Currently, the welcome screen contains relatively useless buttons.

Which is the exact reason I remove them on every single program that has this type of "feature". By your own admission the buttons are indeed useless therefore on my desktop environment they have to go.

It's not like the welcome screen is a wizard that prevents you from directly going to the File menu to access the recent files list.

The only saving grace of that sort of thing is a person can usually turn that off, which is all I want to be able to do.

[Pestigor]

Sorry to be such a bother to everybody but I found a solution to my issue. Thanks for putting up with me.

[Archie]

Sorry to be such a bother to everybody but I found a solution to my issue. Thanks for putting up with me.

Do tell, I'd like to get rid of my welcome screen also.

[Pestigor]

I'm sorry to disappoint you Archie, but my solution involved uninstalling the software and looking else where for satisfaction. For not being a big issue there seem to be some people out there that feel the same way about the "welcome" screen as I do. I have to say the PDF editor you make at foxit is quite nice and very professional, I wish your reader looked more like it.