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On 2006-07-10 lfitzgerald wrote: The forum thread "The annoying welcome tab in the editor" was updated by tgeliot on Jul 3, 2006 with this remark: Woo-hoo! Thanks! I found that immortal Welcome tab a pain, too. In fact, I suggest putting a copy of your instructions down at the bottom of the Welcome tab, so that every new user can readily see how to get rid of it. Or just have a checkbox on the Welcome screen, saying "don't show this any more". http://forum.java.sun.com/thread.jspa?threadID=5063696