If you are a new user to the Eclipse based IDE Spring Tool Suite (STS). If like me, you are getting annoyed when the Dashboard opens up every time the application is started, this is how you can disable it.
After some research and some searching through the preferences, I finally found out how to get it done on the latest version of STS (3.4.0 the one I am using now). Apparently they moved this around from previous versions.
In the STS application, navigate to "Window -> Preferences", and start typing "Dash" inside the text box located at the top left. Click on the "Dashboard" item and uncheck the "Show DashBoard On Startup" item on the right. Click "Apply" and "OK".
You can look at the above image to see how the preference screen for this will look like. Once done, the DashBoard should be gone for ever, unless you want it back in which case you can bring it back by checking the same option in the Preference.
