Right click your CS or HL shortcut, Choose properties, you will see several fields, The first field should be 'target' which is what we want. put your cursor at the very end of that line and enter -nointro make sure there is a space between -nointro and the original target line. It should look like this:

CS Retail version:
C:\Sierra\Counter-Strike\cstrike.exe -nointro

HL Mod version:
C:\Sierra\half-life\hl.exe -game cstrike -nointro

Once you add -nointro to the target line click ok, launch HL and it should take you directly to the main menu. You can also enable the console which will stop the intro from playing as well, click here to enable the console.

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