You might have seen this on some corporate computers: You can display a legal notice when the computer is booted! Here’s how you can create your own.
As always, please read this important information on editing the System Registry.
How To
- Hit the Windows Key+R, type regedit into the run dialog and hit OK.
- Now that you’re in the the Registry, navigate to this key:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\
Windows\CurrentVersion\policies\system
- We are concerned with of the two keys in the right pane:
- legalnoticecaption - This will be the caption of the legal notice dialog box
- legalnoticetext - This will be the actual legal notice text
- Double-click each of these keys and set the Value Data field to display what you’d like.
- Next time you boot your machine, the Legal Notice will be displayed!
Cool hack Saman. Now I know how to scare my friends.
never seen one before, what does it look like?
Actually maybe i have seen one at school. Is it like one of those things that say “Hello [name] You are logged in from [computer room]“
It’s basically a large textbox that appears before you can login. It usually displays text like “The computer belongs to xxxxx corporation and all of it’s contents….”
Screenshot, screenshot!
I also wish to know what it looks like.
I looked everywhere but couldn’t find one
I had the same problem due to a Customer’s system once being a company system. I did find the fore mentioned keys you listed above. However, the machine still gave me the notice after removing those keys on Win2k. Those legal notices can also be stored here:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\Winlogon
Just delete “legalnoticecaption” & “legalnoticetext” & Poof!!! it’s gone.