Disable that Annoying Windows Logon Warning Message
There's nothing more annoying to me than getting a new laptop from work and having to click through the logon warning message set by the IT department. It usually goes something like "Warning: You are logging onto our computer system. We own your soul."
Removing this message isn't all that difficult, but you will need administrator access to your system.
Manual Registry Method
Open up regedit.exe through the run box, and then browse down to the following key:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon
On the right-hand side, find the keys for LegalNoticeCaption and LegalNoticeText and either set both values to blank or just delete them.
Note: If the administrator has set these values through group policy, I believe they will be re-applied automatically by the system at some point. Either way, the group policy key that contains the same values is here:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\policies\system
I realize there are some irritating legal reasons for having this message, but it really gets old after a while.
any company who enabled this message will not give the and user administrator rights, and removing that message will possible cause you grieve with the IT department; nothing worse than people who read IT tips on the web and try them out on their company PC…
You are absolutely right, this won't work on the vast majority of computers at work.
I hesitated on writing this article at first, but then I thought that any responsible administrator doesn't give out admin rights anyway, so it shouldn't hurt.
I was think exactly the same thing. Any IT department that puts the message up but then leaves the user with admin privilages is not worth their weight in salt. Still you never know, it might be more prevelant than we might think.
Well my company gives us admin access to our laptops but I am a developer so I need to be able to install things and what not. Other people who don't need admin privilages don't know what to do with them anyways.
Thanks..This has been a big help since I was facing a major problem with teh auto log in.
How can you create one?