How To Suppress The Welcome Screen On The First Use Of Access 2010 Runtime After Installation?

Question

We have an Access application that we currently distribute with Access 2007 Runtime.  The installation is straight forward.  The user accepts the EULA.  They then run Windows Update, reboot and run the application.

When we do the same thing with Access 2010 Runtime a Welcome screen comes up the first time the application is run asking the user to select one of three options:
Use Recommended Settings
Install Updates Only
Don't make changes

We need to suppress the Welcome screen and set the Install Updates Only.

Is this controlled by registry settings and if so which ones?  We can set them as part of the installation process and avoid having the user see the Welcome screen on first run.

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Answer 1

I think you can do this with a Group Policy. Here is the starting point for Office 2010 Group Policies:

  https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc179081(v=office.14).aspx

Matthias Kläy, Kläy Computing AG

Answer 2

This is for a retail application that might be installed standalone computers or domain joined computers and versions of Windows from Home through Pro.  I don't think we can mess with policy settings.

There must be a registry setting for the Welcome screen option.  One to just indicate it has already run and another to indicate which option was selected.

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Answer 3

Yes, the Group Policy Editor is basically a wrapper for the Registry Editor.

I don't know the actual registry entry to suppress the welcome screen. You may have more luck if you ask this question in a Office Installation forum, like here:

  https://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/office/en-US/home?forum=officesetupdeployprevious

Matthias Kläy, Kläy Computing AG

Answer 4

Hi Saberman,

I find that in other forum one user had a same issue like yours with Access Run Time 2010.

in that they had suggest to add an config.xml file in the root.

which contains the code like below.

<Configuration Product="AccessRT"> 
        <Display Level="basic" CompletionNotice="no" SuppressModal="yes" AcceptEula="yes" /> //same as msp config
           <COMPANYNAME Value="CompanyName" />//same as msp config
           <Setting Id="AUTO_ACTIVATE" Value="1"/>
         <Setting Id="SETUP_REBOOT" Value="Never" /> //same as msp config
 </Configuration

so you can visit the link below and view the suggestions may help you top solve your issue.

Access RunTime Issue

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Regards

Deepak 

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Answer 5

The link you provided leads to a thread about: Docmd.ApplyFilter

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Answer 6

Hi  Saberman,

I corrected the link. you can visit the link now.

Regards

Deepak

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