
The Office Start screen gives users access to their most-recently accessed documents as well as a variety of templates for the application they are using. One of the new features in Office 2013 is the Office Start screen. “Disable First Run Movie” and “Disable Office First Run on application boot” set to Enabled Make Office more familiar

Set both “Disable First Run Movie” and “Disable Office First Run on application boot” to Enabled. Go to User Configuration > Policies > Administrative Templates > Microsoft Office 2013 > First Run. I don’t think it necessarily adds anything to the experience of running an Office application for the first time, especially if your users already have experience with the 2013 apps or use multiple computers and have to click past the video every time they move to a different computer. The First Run Movie is a short narrated video that runs the first time an Office application in the suite is opened. Next, we’ll need to disable the First Run Movie. “Disable Opt-in Wizard on first run” set to Enabled in Group Policy Set “Disable Opt-in Wizard on first run” to Enabled.

Go to User Configuration > Policies > Administrative Templates > Microsoft Office 2013 > Privacy Trust Center. “First things first” pop-up during first run of an Office 2013 applicationīecause IT is going to be managing the system updates, we can disable this screen.

The first pop-up the user will see is the “First things first” pop-up that will ask them to configure updates.
