Suppressing welcome screen at startup

I would like to suppress the welcome screen dialog from initially opening or preset the checkbox "Don't Show Again" checkbox. We have a customer with multiple users and they don't want the welcome screen to show up the first time a new user launches his copy of InDesign. I know you only need to click on the "Don't Show Again" checkbox and the dialog won't show up for subsequent launches. But this is too much for our customer and they want the default to be that it doesn't show up. I've found the kPMWSetScreenPrefsCmdBoss but there is no description of the interface for the IID_IPMWSCREENPREFSCMDDATA so I don't know if this might be an option. There are some other boss classes for the welcome screen plug-in (kPMWelcomeStartupShutdownBoss, kPMCloseWelcomeScreenCmdBoss, etc.) but it is unclear whether any of these offer a method of preventing or closing the dialog.
Any suggestions on how I can either preset something to prevent it from initially opening or force it to close should it open during launch?

Hi
Easiest way to get rid of that dialog is to disable or remove plugin. Don't have access to machine with indesign at this moment, but in plugins folder, (PMPack, welcomescreen.pln ) - not sure about those names.
Regards
Bartek

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