Monday 31 January 2011

Make Accpac load faster in a Citrix\TS environment

For customer that are using citrix or terminal server connection, there are several things that you can do to make Accpac load faster for the first time :
  • Removing the splash screen. There are 2 splash screen one belong to Accpac and the other one belong to Pervasive if you are using Pervasive database. Here how you can remove the splash screen :
  1. Click Start in Windows, then Run. Type "regedit" and click OK to open up the Registry Editor.
  2. Expand HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\ACCPAC International, Inc.\ACCPAC\DESKTOP.
  3. If Splash Screen exists already on the right hand pane of the window, change its value from "Yes" to "No". If it does not, right click the right hand pane of the window. Select New, then String Value. Name it "SplashScreen" and set its value to "No".
  • Removing JPEG File : Under Accpac folder search for folder called ASXXA\ENG there are 2 jpeg file, you rename/delete this two jpeg.
There you go how you can make it faster now.