How to get rid of Steam splash screen on startup in New UI?

[Oaky Leaf]

Because of new CEF trash Steam now starts up withing 10-40 sec, showing big splash screen which steals focus. This is very annoying on Windows startup because Steam launches not immediately after system login. So how can this splash screen be turned off? Aside -vgui option.

Also now Steam exits with splash screen and delay, so I think it affects Windows shutdown time.

[slobydamn]

Thank you Llamadash! This was driving me crazy.

[modball]

Originally posted by LlamaDash:

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run]
"Steam"="\"C:\\Program Files (x86)/Steam/steam.exe/" -silent -vgui"

Thank you!

[rymes]

Doesn't work for me, still seeing the splash screen.

[Vulture17]

Originally posted by LlamaDash:

Thanks to those who mentioned the -vgui option. I've tracked down where steam is registered to run and modified the arguments so all is quiet again. Pop the following in a file called "Make steam silent again.reg" then double-click and run it to modify the registry (you may want to take a backup first.) The -silent was already there and removing it means you'll see the "logging in" so leave that there.

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run]
"Steam"="\"C:\\Program Files (x86)/Steam/steam.exe/" -silent -vgui"

and even though I've wrapped that in a code block there's still some odd character translation going on. Those forward slashes should all be double backslashes except the last which should just be one backslash to escape the double quote!

What version OS are you using?

[LlamaDash]

I'm on Windows 11 but that registry change is pretty Windows version agnostic... it should work on all versions. It's annoying how the Steam forum keeps re-formatting the registry file content so for the avoidance of any doubt I'll post it again below but this time all backslashes '\' have been replaced with a hash '#'. So when you create your own .reg file just replace '#' with '\' and all should be good (fingers crossed!)

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER#Software#Microsoft#Windows#CurrentVersion#Run]
"Steam"="#"C:##Program Files (x86)##Steam##steam.exe#" -silent -vgui"

And one final note... you may need to re-run this .reg file after Steam has upgraded itself as I'm pretty sure it re-writes this registry entry on every re-install.

[tigromvivo]

Thank you for the effort, but it didn't work for me. I'm using Windows 10.

[Ashpool]

Unfortunately it does not work for me, either on startup or directly from a command prompt. Win 11

[Phénomènes Mystiques]

I know how, but people generally are mean to me when I say how to, but a batch file works fine.

[beadlebees]

Originally posted by LlamaDash:

Thanks to those who mentioned the -vgui option. I've tracked down where steam is registered to run and modified the arguments so all is quiet again. Pop the following in a file called "Make steam silent again.reg" then double-click and run it to modify the registry (you may want to take a backup first.) The -silent was already there and removing it means you'll see the "logging in" so leave that there.

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run]
"Steam"="\"C:\\Program Files (x86)/Steam/steam.exe/" -silent -vgui"

and even though I've wrapped that in a code block there's still some odd character translation going on. Those forward slashes should all be double backslashes except the last which should just be one backslash to escape the double quote!

Thanks LlamaDash! If I may ask a more basic question, if this ever needs to be removed, could it cause any problems? Is it easy to remove the entry?

[M2002K]

Or you can press "Windows-Key + R" to bring up the run menu, enter "regedit" (without the quotes, of course) and agree to the UAC window.

Then navigate to HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run

And double click on Steam on the right hand column to edit the string, and simply add "-vgui" (without the quotes) at the end of the line.

This will prevent formatting errors when trying to inject into regedit externally.

[zaltocleotl[Banned@Paradox]]

You can't. Not without a certain hack that will get me banned for even mentioning it here.
What you can do is tell your firewall to block all Steam and Paradox programs from any and all internet access. That way the store loads with the old stock images and no playing videos or sounds. Nice and smooth and fast and QUIET!
Go ahead and start your game, and then use TaskManager to see what is running. Then open your firewall program and make outgoing and ingoing rules to block all the Steam and Paradox programs that run when you play your game. You may have to do this two, three, even more times, because Steam puts it's webhelper program into at least three different places on your computer so it can have one no matter what. You have to block every one of them. I noticed Paradox does that too, so I had to block three of the same .exe files in three different locations before it shut up.
Many games load WAY FASTER when Steam doesn't have internet access. Cities:Skylines2 is one of them. It loads in less than half the time now that it isn't telling Steam and Paradox everything I've done since my last game session.
When you want an update, either disable your firewall for the few minutes the update takes, or disable your firewall rules for Steam or Paradox for a few minutes. When the update is done, turn your firewall or rules back on.
Show Steam and Paradox that you're not into being a data source for their data mining profits and you're not an advertising hole they shove their ads into. When you visit the Store you get all the ads possible, you don't need them ON YOUR COMPUTER TOO.