I don't advocate extreme golf tactics such as dropping quotes when coding for logon scripts.

BTW, my start page is "about:blank" and it loads really fast.

For our users we set their start page to our intranet via GPO but everyone gets around it anyway by putting shortcuts on their desktop to whatever page they want.
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