The Old New Thing

How do I hide a window without blocking on it?

May 9, 2012 May 9, 2012 05/9/12

Raymond Chen

A customer was working on improving their application startup performance. They found that if their application was launched immediately after a fresh boot, the act of dismissing their splash screen was taking over 5% of their boot time. Their code removed the splash screen by calling . They suspect that the splash screen thread has, for some ...