With the help of this tutorial you can display a Message Title and Text of your choice. This message will be displayed on a screen which will appear before the logon screen in Windows Vista.


Here's how you can do this>>>

• Click on the Start button, type regedit and hit Enter
• Click Continue to bypass the UAC
• In Registry Editor, navigate to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\System

• Move into the right pane, double click on legalnoticecaption and click Modify
• In the Value data field, type a Title of your choice say "Warning ! Danger Ahead" (without the quotes) and hit Enter.
• To give a text, double-click on legalnoticetext given right below and click Modify again.
• In the Value data field, type a text of your choice say "Tighten your seat belts and Get ready to explore the World of Windows Vista"(without the quotes) and press Enter.
• Exit Registry Editor and Log off to see the changes.

This is how the screen shud look:

Manan wrote Don't need to go through registry. Simpler easier method to do this: Start -> All Programs -> Administrative Tools -> Local Security Policy. Expand Local Policies then Security options. In the details pane double click Interactive logon: Message text for users attempting to log on. Type in the message you want to appear.

but afaik this method can only work in Vista Business, Ultimate, and Enterprise editions and not in Vista Home Basic and Home Premium editions.

dmudgal wrote but afaik this method can only work in Vista Business, Ultimate, and Enterprise editions and not in Vista Home Basic and Home Premium editions.

Possible, will have to check it, I guess if Ramesh says so, then it might be true.

EDIT

Hmmm, checked on the net the MMC snapin is not allowed or not present in Vista Home Premium and Baisc, weird! One is not allowed to use Local Policies in Home Premium & Basic.

It's a Microsoft world kid, I am just living in it.