Skype

UPDATE 2/13/12: Works fine with Skype Vers. 5.5

Do you use Skype 5.3 on a mac? Do you hate the splash screen you see every time you launch the program like I do? The one that says Welcome to Skype 5 and makes you click "Leave Tour" just to use the program.

I was able to disable it using a simple Terminal script.

First, if Skype is open, close it.

Next, go to Applications --> Utilities --> Terminal

In the terminal window type in the following (caps and lowercase type are important):

defaults write com.skype.skype SKShowSplash NO


Hit return.

Now open Skype. The program should start immediately without that annoying splash screen.

Skype should really give end users the option to disable it in the splash screen itself.