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Creating a Legal Text Notice Before Logon


You can create a banner that will come up just before you logon to the computer:

  1. Start Regedit
  2. Go to HKeyLocalMachine \ SOFTWARE \ Microsoft \ Windows \ CurrentVersion \ WinLogon
  3. Create a new string value called LegalNoticeCaption and give it a value you want to see in the menu bar
  4. Create a new string value called LegalNoticeText and give it a value you want to see in the in the dialog box
  5. Now before anyone logs into that computer, this banner will come up on the screen.
  6. This can be useful for any legal warnings you want to give regarding the use of the computer.