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[Guest]

When pressing Ctrl, Alt and Del. My task manager opens. If I click on users
then it shows a list of CURRENTLY logged in users. I then send a message to
them by selecting them all, right clickiing, send message etc. I would like
to know if there is a way that I can send a message to people that are
currently not logged in. So that it pops up the next time that they do log in.

I would like it so that a message appears on all accounts everytime they log
in, I would also like it so that I would be able to change the message that
appears frequently. (eg. give an small written update on possible system
changes etc, and just to have a little fun, eg. "Merry Christmas All" etc.)

I hope that you will be able to help me.

Thank-you in advance,

Daniel
(e-mail address removed)

 

[Ash]

I would like it so that a message appears on all accounts everytime they log

in, I would also like it so that I would be able to change the message that
appears frequently. (eg. give an small written update on possible system
changes etc, and just to have a little fun, eg. "Merry Christmas All" etc.)

email?

 

[Guest]

Very funny

Daniel

 

[Ash]

Very funny

Daniel

Sorry - couldn't resist. Before subscribing to this news group, I hung
out in ones that constantly flamed you and offered little to no help.
Umm ... let's see ... So. You need to have, sort of a welcome message
people see when they log in, right? Well ...

You *could* make a batch file and put it in the system's autoexec.bat
file. The batch file could start up an HTML page stored on a chared
netowrked drive. You could edit the HTML file to say whatever you wanted
to. Make it hidden so it wouldn't get in the way. so, if the shared
drive was R:, for example, then the batch file could be:

ECHO OFF
R:
cd MSG
start index.html

That would open the HTML files named index.html in the computer's
default HTML viewer(probably IE). This is just a suggestion, but there's
probably a better way.

 

[Guest]

Thank's for your help, but i found a way of doing it. I found that any file
placed in the location (presumeing that C is the main hard drive):

c:\documents and settings\all users\start menu\programs\startup

is automatically open when someone logs in. Now for example I want a
different message on my GUEST account to the others so what I did was to
create a text file with the relevent "welcome to guest account etc." message,
and saved it to the following location:

c:\documents and settings\guest\start menu\programs\startup\Welcome.txt

Now whenever someone logs into the guest account a small, quickly loading
txt file greets them.

I also found out that if you have multiple accounts there is going to
normally be one novice (in this case mother) and she does not need to use all
the fancy programs that I will be using. therefore I looked (whilst logged
into her) and wrote down what I didn't think she needed to be displayed.
I then went to the Shared start menu ( c:\documents and settings\ALL
USERS\start menu\programs and moved all of the things that she and little sis
will never use to:

C:\documents and settings\DANIEL\start menu\programs

By moving them from ALL USERS start up menu, to my own I found that the
programs are only listed in my start menu not theirs. This has made life a
lot easier for them.

also if you are going to let someone use your guest account their are
several programs that you may wish to to take off their start menu, such as
SYSTEM TOOLS etc. Stuff that could be used in the wrong way. Especially as
there is no password for the guest account.

Please write back to me with any questions you have. I would love to hear
from you if you have taken my advice and removed them from the guest account
(or even a few more)

Hope to hear from you soon,

Daniel
(e-mail address removed)