[Forum FAQ] Why does Office 2013 cost more network flow when the application starts by default?

Question

Recently, we’ve heard that our customers encounter high network traffic since they large-scalely deploy Office 365/2013 within the domain/site. Does this behavior relate to the new Office? Or does Office 365/2013 cost more network resources in this case?
To troubleshoot this, we consider to analyze what happened during the process by Network Monitor tool. 
Start a new capture first and launch Office Word 2013, get the following things as the screenshots:
According to the information above,
in addition to the network authentication flow, we could notice that the Word.exe would download a lot of PNG files from the link “/en-us/templates”. What about those PNG files?
Let us try to directly visit them via IE:
http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/templates/TM103463086.png?ts=AOLhIeGIzwg
Beyond question, they are the thumbnails of the Office template which are downloaded while the Office application starts by default.

Answer 1

In
some certain circumstances,
we might disable it by Office option or Group policy.
Disable Start Screen by Office 2103 UI:
Open Office 2013 application, go to File in Ribbon > Options tab > General page > under the section of Start Screen options, uncheck the options "Show the
Start screen when this application starts"
Disable Start Screen by Registry key:
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\15.0\Common\General
DisableBootToOfficeStart (DWORD): set the value
to 1
Disable Start Screen by Group Policy:
Disable Start Screen by OCT:
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