WOW 21

WOW 21 - Windows Logon Banner

Good Afternoon Friends,

In many of the organizations, they show a banner when we try to login to the system. Ever wondered how to get this one in your personal Machine @ home. Read on to know how. Again this is a Registry Hack.

Steps:

1. Open Registry Editor (Start -> Run -> Regedit)

2. Navigate to the path: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\policies\system

3. Right click on the Right Pane and create New String values.

4. Rename the first string key as "legalnoticecaption" and add the heading that you wish to see here. (say. !!! Important Notice !!!)

5. Rename the second string key as "legalnoticetext" and add the text that you would wish to see here. (say. Visit: http://danishthomas.blogspot.com/ ;))

6. You are done. Next time you would see this screen before you get to the logon page.

Alternate Method:

1. Open Notepad and key in the following lines of code:

--------------------------------- Starts here --------------------------------- ' Exclude this line

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\policies\system]

"legalnoticecaption"="!!! Important Notice !!!"

"legalnoticetext"="Visit: http://danishthomas.blogspot.com/ ;)

You can put a new paragraph too."

--------------------------------- Ends here --------------------------------- ' Exclude this line

2. Save this file as say "Banner.reg" (Note the extension .REG)

3. Double click on the file to add the contents to the registry.

This way, you can show off by keying in some stuff (upto ur imagination). Well, the best of us could use this as a first step for an e-proposal. ;)

Danish :)