How to get rid of this

[Menno Hershberger]

This gal has a laptop her company gave her. When you first boot it up it
stops just before the welcome screen and displays the message I've put at
the site below.
http://www.mewnlite.com/stophere.jpg
It's way too long to copy down so that's why I did it this way.
This message also appears when booting to safe mode. I see no reference to
it in any of the run registries.
If it's something that effects both safe mode and normal mode, where would
you go to intercept it?

 

[John]

The computer belonged to a domain and that is the "terms and conditions" put
there by the company's network admin.
Try disjoining the domain and make the computer part of a workgroup.
WINKEY + Pause/Break > computer name and make the changes there.

 

[Malke]

This gal has a laptop her company gave her. When you first boot it up
it stops just before the welcome screen and displays the message I've
put at the site below.
http://www.mewnlite.com/stophere.jpg
It's way too long to copy down so that's why I did it this way.
This message also appears when booting to safe mode. I see no
reference to it in any of the run registries.
If it's something that effects both safe mode and normal mode, where
would you go to intercept it?

It means that the company modified the bootup to give that warning. I've
seen similar screens in a lot of business clients' machines. Perhaps it
is a custom Splash screen. In any case, the best thing your client
could do is to wipe the drive and clean install Windows because there
will be other domain-and-company stuff on there.

Malke

 

[Wesley Vogel]

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon
LegalNoticeCaption
or
LegalNoticeText
or
Welcome

 

[Guest]

This is an entry in group policy

gpedit.msc

Disjoining from domain will not remove the message

 

[John]

sorry for the misinformation. i was led to believe this because i took a
networking course and on the school network if logged on to the domain i
would get the domain "rules" so to speak, but when i logged on as local
admin i would not receive the message....again, sorry for the misinformation

 

[Menno Hershberger]

Thank you! Actually I found it in Local Policy. Could not find a way to
disable interactive logon, but found the text of that message and deleted
it all. Now it doesn't come up at all.

 

[Menno Hershberger]

OK, I read the other message first (from anonymous) and was able to
delete the text in the policy editor. And that stopped it from coming
up. So now I went and looked at the keys you mentioned and see they're
still there, but the values are empty. I'm not sure if you were
suggesting that I delete the keys altogether, but maybe I'd just better
leave it alone now before I break something! Thanks. I'm sure your way
would have worked just as well. I think I just did the same thing from a
different angle...

 

[Wesley Vogel]

Menno,

No, I did not mean to delete any of those keys. Had you checked those
first, you would've seen your message in the Value Data of one of those
Value Names. No Value Data = No message. Empty is good.

 

[Menno Hershberger]

It means that the company modified the bootup to give that warning.
I've seen similar screens in a lot of business clients' machines.
Perhaps it is a custom Splash screen. In any case, the best thing your
client could do is to wipe the drive and clean install Windows because
there will be other domain-and-company stuff on there.

I know where you're coming from. On this one, it would be a last
resort, since I doubt if she has a lot of the installation software
she'd need to reinstall her apps. Actually, she still works for the
same company; they just gave her the laptop and she doesn't hook it
up to their network any more. And of course since she got it home,
she's got it all filled up with music and pictures and junk.
Backuppable of course, but it would be a pain.

 

[Alex Nichol]

This gal has a laptop her company gave her. When you first boot it up it
stops just before the welcome screen and displays the message I've put at
the site below.
http://www.mewnlite.com/stophere.jpg
It's way too long to copy down so that's why I did it this way.
This message also appears when booting to safe mode. I see no reference to
it in any of the run registries.

Registry at
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\
policies\System

In the right pane double click legalnoticetext , clear the pane and OK.
Also clear the legalnoticecaption, above, if there is anything in it