I need to know how to identify whenthe Windows logon process finis

[Luis R.]

We have some users that begin to load their applications as soon as the
desktop appears, but we know that there are many process that still are
loading, like the antivirus, group policies, network connections and so on.
They're using Windows XP PRO SP 2, with a Windows 2003 Server working as
active directory.

I like to ask you about that if there any way to identify when all the
process finished to loaded and then, instruct the users that begin to load
their own applications. For example, if we can show a message that says
something that "now you can begin to work" or something like that.

Thanks in advance for all your help.

Luis R.

 

[Tim Meddick]

I know of no application that does as you ask. However, my suggestion is
that you type a message entitled "Boot Process Continuing" and reads like
"Please wait for all disk activity to stop before continuing with your
work." This could be done by going to the registry and looking up the key:

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

Then assign string values under it titled: "LegalNoticeCaption" and
"LegalNoticeText" respectively. This will have the effect of displaying a
popup notice with an "OK" to dismiss it. Okay, some people could just
click on it and make it go away, carrying on regardless, but I think you'll
find that for the most part people will give it some respect.

Cheers, Tim Meddick, Peckham.

Here is a pre-defined registry file that you can paste into a text file
(save as type - ANSI in Notepad) and rename to like Myfile.REG ensuring that
the extension really is .REG. Then double click on it within an Admin
account on each machine you want to have the message displayed (NB Despite
the "REGEDIT4" this file will work under ALL versions of Windows!):


REGEDIT4

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon]
"LegalNoticeCaption"="Boot Process Continuing"
"LegalNoticeText"="Please wait for all disk activity to stop before
continuing with your work"