EAX splash screen with Audigy

[Alien 1]

Anyone know how to get rid of the EAX splash screen that appears on startup? Apparently a file called CTEaxSpl.exe is being called from somewhere & is playing 1 or more AVI files. Someone on 1 of Creative's newsgroups said to use Msconfig, only prob is I've already checked that. There are only 3 new entries: ADGJDet & CTLTask, which I've disabled already, but there's another 1 called Updreg.exe which is in C:\Windows which I haven't disabled, as I'm not 100% sure what it is - the file properties->version->comments says it's Creative Registry Update.

 

I did a search in the registry & found a Runonce key for CTEaxSpl.exe. I know Runonce is supposed to do just that - run once, but I tried deleting that key on a hunch to see what would happen, & guess what - when I rebooted it's back again. Do you think Updreg.exe could be putting it back there? If this is true, this would be a sneaky way to stop people being able to disable CTEaxSpl.exe in Msconfig, as it doesn't show the contents of the Runonce key.

 

I think I will try disabling Updreg in Msconfig & then deleting that Runonce entry & see if it still comes back when I reboot, but will have to that later this evening as I have a download going @ the mo that I don't wanna interrupt.

 

Any other ideas?

[clutch 1]

Nope, the easiest way was to right click on the creative mixer and go to settings, and there was a little checkbox for loading the stupid splash screen. I am not sure if this is *exactly* correct, but it's what I vaguely remember from fixing it before.

[Alien 1]

Found it!!! [@ least I think I have - I'll know when my download finishes & I get chance to reboot]

 

Incase anyone else would like to know, you have to run the Creative Splash Screen app from the program group on the start menu, then click the bottom right button [looks like a circle within a circle] which then reveals the option to load on startup. Would be better if this was off by default, but is [hopefully] sorted now.

[CrazyKillerMan 0]

That will fix it, I had to fix that problem ASAP when I got my audigy in febuary.

[Admiral LSD 0]

If it only appears on startup, why bother going to the trouble of removing it? It makes no sense...

[Alien 1]

Because I don't want anything to run on startup unless it's necessary, or unless it's something I want to run.

[Admiral LSD 0]

Only got 64Mb RAM?

[Alien 1]

ha ha, very funny No, I have 384MB, I just resent have anything running that I don't want to run.

[CrazyKillerMan 0]

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If it only appears on startup, why bother going to the trouble of removing it? It makes no sense...

Its one single check box that is cleaverly hidden, and, its not that I (we) cant afford ram for it to play, its one of the most annoying sounds ever.

[clutch 1]

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If it only appears on startup, why bother going to the trouble of removing it? It makes no sense...

I have a 2.4GHz box with a gig of RAM, yet I can't stand that stupid thing. That's a good enough reason to be rid of it.

[Admiral LSD 0]

I still don't understand, not only does it only happen at startup, it doesn't even stay resident. How often do you guys reboot your PCs?

[Alien 1]

Now that I got my Audigy - hopefully not very often. Though I do plan to do a reinstall in the [hopefully] not too distant future, because things have got a little cluttered, etc, & that will mean plenty of reboots as quite a few apps/updates/whatever require a reboot. Aside from this, I'm also a perfectionist [whenever possible ].

[clutch 1]

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I still don't understand, not only does it only happen at startup, it doesn't even stay resident. How often do you guys reboot your PCs?

I boot once every couple of weeks or so, yet I would find it annoying. If you can't understand that, then that's fine. However, I see where they are coming from and think that it's stupid for CL to bury the checkbox to disable the splash screen like they did.

[Admiral LSD 0]

Every time I switch my computer on it shows this screen saying "Windows XP Professional." How do I disable it?

 

 

[size:9]easy: don't switch the computer on [/color]

[CrazyKillerMan 0]

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I boot once every couple of weeks or so, yet I would find it annoying.

Its annoying ya, but mainly, I dont want chicks to hear it. Its bad enough I have a modded case, dual monitors etc.

[Alien 1]

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Every time I switch my computer on it shows this screen saying "Windows XP Professional." How do I disable it?



[size:9]easy: don't switch the computer on [/color]

Or you could use BootXP to replace it with whatever boot screen you want - either 1 of your own design, or 1 of the myriad of ready made ones you can find on the net.

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Its annoying ya, but mainly, I dont want chicks to hear it. Its bad enough I have a modded case, dual monitors etc.

Ah, I see - you'd rather they thought you were a "jock" instead of someone with a brain?

Go on, release the inner evil :cough: I mean inner nerd.

[CrazyKillerMan 0]

HAHHAHAHA

 

Yea, I wanna get a heart tatoo with "MHz" in it

 

JK

[Admiral LSD 0]

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Or you could use BootXP to replace it with whatever boot screen you want - either 1 of your own design, or 1 of the myriad of ready made ones you can find on the net.

But that doesn't get rid of it completely though it just replaces it with something different. It's stupid for M$ to make it so difficult to disable it.

[clutch 1]

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But that doesn't get rid of it completely though it just replaces it with something different. It's stupid for M$ to make it so difficult to disable it.

Sounds a lot like what I said about CL and that splash screen at startup, hmmm...

[Admiral LSD 0]

[Alien 1]

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But that doesn't get rid of it completely though it just replaces it with something different. It's stupid for M$ to make it so difficult to disable it.

Just do it with a plain black bitmap. Not sure whether BootXP would let you get away with it or not [haven't played around with it much - just glad to have my fave boot screen back].

You could try using a 1x1 pixel black bitmap - that would load quicker

[Admiral LSD 0]

[Marktait 0]

Is there a Simpsons background for BootXP, anyone got one coz im insane on Simpsons

 

the pic of homer and bart on BootXP's site wont download

 

Thanx guyz

[Alien 1]

Have a look here I seem to remember seeing some Simpsons ones.

[Admiral LSD 0]

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If it only appears on startup, why bother going to the trouble of removing it? It makes no sense...

It makes sense now:



Check out the kernel memory stat there. It normally sits around 20-30Mb but som reason CTEaxSpl.exe takes 30-40Mb for itself in that space. Anyone know why it does this?