how to disable logon message

[badgolferman]

I am setting up some systems that will not have a keyboard, mouse or
monitor hooked up to them and will be controlled remotely via Real VNC.
I made the mistake of setting them up initially like all the other
desktop systems and entered a .reg file that enables a logon text
message warning people not to mess with the computer.

Realizing these machines need to boot up all the way without any user
intervention, I want to remove the warning message but don't remember
how to do that. I've looked in the Local Security policies but nothing
stands out to me. I searched the registry for the text entered but it
came back as not found.

Obviously I am missing something so if someone can direct me to the
proper setting I would appreciate it.

 

[Dave Patrick]

Empty the two strings below.

HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\policies\system
"legalnoticecaption"=""
"legalnoticetext"=""

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Regards,

Dave Patrick ....Please no email replies - reply in newsgroup.
Microsoft Certified Professional
Microsoft MVP [Windows]
http://www.microsoft.com/protect

:
|I am setting up some systems that will not have a keyboard, mouse or
| monitor hooked up to them and will be controlled remotely via Real VNC.
| I made the mistake of setting them up initially like all the other
| desktop systems and entered a .reg file that enables a logon text
| message warning people not to mess with the computer.
|
| Realizing these machines need to boot up all the way without any user
| intervention, I want to remove the warning message but don't remember
| how to do that. I've looked in the Local Security policies but nothing
| stands out to me. I searched the registry for the text entered but it
| came back as not found.
|
| Obviously I am missing something so if someone can direct me to the
| proper setting I would appreciate it.
|
|

 

[badgolferman]

Empty the two strings below.

HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\policies\system
"legalnoticecaption"=""
"legalnoticetext"=""

Thank you. Before you wrote I did find it here and cleared them which
seems to work.

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows
NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon

Are they related?

 

[Dave Patrick]

For what operating system? AFAIK Windows 2000 uses;
HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\policies\system

Windows NT did use;
HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon

--
Regards,

Dave Patrick ....Please no email replies - reply in newsgroup.
Microsoft Certified Professional
Microsoft MVP [Windows]
http://www.microsoft.com/protect

:
| Thank you. Before you wrote I did find it here and cleared them which
| seems to work.
|
| HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows
| NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon
|
| Are they related?
|
|

 

[badgolferman]

For what operating system? AFAIK Windows 2000 uses;
HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\policies\system

Windows NT did use;
HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon

It was a fresh install of W2K PRO SP4. Perhaps the .reg file I used
was originally written for NT and the previous administrators kept it
for use on W2K. Anyway, the warning has always worked for me on the
W2K machines, but I could not see it anywhere in the Local Policies
applet.

 

[badgolferman]

For what operating system? AFAIK Windows 2000 uses;
HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\policies\system

Windows NT did use;
HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon

It was a fresh install of W2K PRO SP4. Perhaps the .reg file I used
was originally written for NT and the previous administrators kept it
for use on W2K. Anyway, the warning has always worked for me on the
W2K machines, but I could not see it anywhere in the Local Policies
applet.