In VS10, I went into the program installation folder and deleted all files pertaining to (splash screen) in the name and that eleminated my splash screen.
In VS 2018 I took away the splash screen in a more professional way; one of the files in program folder is (splashscreen configuration settings) I changed 2 or 3 settings to -0-(zero)
and that eleminated my splash screen see attached photo. the reason I did this was because the splashscreens were causing delays in program startup at tim es.