Tips N Tricks
Avira UnErase Personal – Recover your deleted files
Feb 8th
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Enable Windows Logon Welcome or Warning Message in Windows 98/2000
Jan 2nd
This article describes how to add a Warning or a Welcome message to be displayed when a user logs on to the computer.
Important This section, method, or task contains steps that tell you how to modify the registry. However, serious problems might occur if you modify the registry incorrectly. Therefore, make sure that you follow these steps carefully. For added protection, back up the registry before you modify it. Then, you can restore the registry if a problem occurs.
Windows 95 and Windows 98
To enable a warning message, modify the following registry key:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Winlogon
The string values will appear on the logon banner.
Example:
“LegalNoticeCaption”=”Important Notice:”
“LegalNoticeText”=”No Unauthorized access allowed”
“LegalNoticeText”=”No Unauthorized access allowed”
Windows NT and Later
To enable a warning message to be displayed, make the following changes to the registry:
- Start Registry Editor.
- From the HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE subtree, go to the following subkey:
SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon
- Add or modify the following values:
Name Data Type Value ----------------------------------------------- LegalNoticeCaption REG_SZ Dialog Caption LegalNoticeText REG_SZ Dialog Message
NOTE: This dialog box is presented to the user after they press CTRL+ALT+DEL and before the logon dialog box is presented.
This works for Microsoft Windows 98, Microsoft Windows ME, Microsoft Windows NT, Microsoft Windows 2000.
For Microsoft Windows XP Home Edition & Microsoft Windows XP Professional try http://www.saxonindia.net/software/enable-windows-logon-welcome-or-warning-message/
Enable Windows Logon Welcome or Warning Message
Jan 2nd
This article describes how to add a Warning or a Welcome message to be displayed when a user logs on to the computer.
Important This section, method, or task contains steps that tell you how to modify the registry. However, serious problems might occur if you modify the registry incorrectly. Therefore, make sure that you follow these steps carefully. For added protection, back up the registry before you modify it. Then, you can restore the registry if a problem occurs.
To enable display of a warning message, make the following changes in the registry:
- Start Registry Editor (Regedit).
- Locate the HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE subtree, and then go to the following key:
SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon
- Add or modify the following values:
Name Data Type Value ----------------------------------------------- LegalNoticeCaption REG_SZ Dialog Caption LegalNoticeText REG_SZ Dialog Message
For example, the “LegalNoticeCaption” can be “Important Notice:” and the “LegalNoticeText” can be “No unauthorized access is allowed”.
The user sees this dialog box after the user presses CTRL+ALT+DEL and before the user sees the logon dialog box. The user can click OK in the message box and log on normally. Quit Registry Editor.
This works for
Microsoft Windows XP Home Edition & Microsoft Windows XP Professional
For Microsoft Windows 98, Microsoft Windows ME, Microsoft Windows NT, Microsoft Windows 2000 try http://www.saxonindia.net/software/enable-windows-logon-welcome-or-warning-message-in-windows-982000/
BSNL – Airtel DNS Problems – Solve by using OpenDNS
Jan 2nd
BSNL – Airtel DNS Problems
Indian Broadband users especially BSNL and occasionally Airtel subscribers face slow internet / DNS related issues. This is due to the DNS Servers which are unresponsive or slow.
This can be solved by using an alternative DNS instead of the default :
Preferred DNS server – 61.1.96.69 (BSNL DNS Server IP)
Alternate DNS server – 61.1.96.71 (BSNL DNS Server IP)
One good alternative is to use OpenDNS - DNS IP Addresses as below :
Preferred DNS server – 208.67.222.222
Alternate DNS server – 208.67.220.220