Kodu - Disable Startup Video

[lafleur1977]

Hello,

 

We have Kodu Game Lab 1.3.5.0 installed in one of our IT Suites running Windows 7 64-bit. I have been asked if it is possible to disable the startup video as this wastes time during the lesson. Does anybody know a way of doing this?

 

Thanks

[foofighterjim]

Not found a way of doing it. As we have roaming profiles it only happens once on first run, our IT department were happy enough with that.

[lafleur1977]

I have found that it only runs the first time too. I have found a way of disabling the video, by deleting the video itself located in c:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Research\Kodu Game Lab\Content\Video. Kodu then starts up successfully without the startup video.

 

Thanks

[Arthur]

Something else you can do to speed it up is to disable the update check by editing the SiteOptions.xml file in the \Content\Xml subfolder. i.e.

 

From

[color="#FF0000"]true[/color]

 

To

[color="#FF0000"]false[/color]

 

Kodu then starts up successfully without the startup video.

I was going suggest that too. Renaming the Intro.wmv file should also do the trick.

[foofighterjim]

Something else you can do to speed it up is to disable the update check by editing the SiteOptions.xml

 

You can also achieve this by adding /NoUpdate at the end of the shortcut, you can also use /NoInstrumentation to stop it from sending info to Microsoft.

[lafleur1977]

Thanks for your help guys and the tip about updates is useful