Hello, we need to have an internal rollout of Emacs where we want to put some institute-specific defaults in a site-start.el (or default.el) file. I can see why one generally should not set "inhibit-startup-screen" as a default for new users, in our case (we try to provide internal documentation and courses) it seems justified. If we put (setq inhibit-startup-screen t) in site-start.el we still get the Emacs splashscreen. Is there a way to avoid the splashscreen other than using user-specific .emacs files? Many thanks in advance. Warm regards, Stefan -- Dr. Stefan Vollmar, Dipl.-Phys. Head of IT group Max-Planck-Institut für neurologische Forschung Gleuelerstr. 50, 50931 Köln, Germany Tel.: +49-221-4726-213 FAX +49-221-4726-298 Tel.: +49-221-478-5713 Mobile: 0160-93874279 Email: vollmar@nf.mpg.de http://www.nf.mpg.de