When SQL Server Management Studio starts it displays a splash screen and sits there doing something in the background. If you don’t want that splash screen to distract you then here are some quick tips that you can follow to get rid of that splash screen when SQL Server starts.

Step-1:

Right click somewhere on your desktop and click “New” and on the submenu click “Shortcut”.

Step-2:

Click the “Browse…” button and navigate to the “SQLWB.exe” file. It must mostly be under “C:\Program Files\Microsoft SQL Server\90\Tools\Binn\VSShell\Common7\IDE\Sqlwb.exe”. Notice the Binn spelling.

Step-3:

Type-in –nospalsh after the full path and after the end quote. Make sure to have a space between the end quote on the path and the “–nosplash” word.

Step-4:

Click Next and give a name to the shortcut and click the Finish button.

Windows will create a shortcut on your desktop with the name that you’ve given on the above step.

The next time you want to launch SQL Server use this shortcut and you won’t get the splash screen anymore.