How To Display Legal Notice Dialog Box During System Startup in Windows

With this simple yet powerful registry tweak you can pop-up a dialog box displaying any message you want just before the user is going to logon. This is mainly useful to effectively display the company’s private policy or any other important notice you want to mention to the users of your PC.Legal Notice dialog box during system startup in Windows XP
Follow the steps below to Display it on your PC:

1. Click Start, then click Run.. and type regedit, and then click OK.
This opens Registry Editor Window.Windows Registry Editor
2. From the left-pane of the Registry Editor go to the following Registry Key
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESOFTWAREMicrosoftWindowsNTCurrentVersionWinLogonHKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE-SOFTWARE-Microsoft-WindowsNT-CurrentVersion-WinLogon
3. In the right-pane, Create New String Value with the Value name LegalNoticeCaption and edit its ‘Value data’ with the caption you want to set for your dialog box.Windows logon LegalNoticeCaption
4. Now, Create another String Value with the Value name LegalNoticeText and edit the Value data with the text message you want to display in the dialog box.Enter Legal Notice Text Value data in registry editor
5. Close the Registry Editor and Restart your PC for the changes to take effect.

That’s it!! From now onwards during the system startup you can see a dialog box displaying the message you have previously set.

Note: To disable the legal notice dialog box and retrieve your previous settings, either set the value data of both the Strings created to blank/null (preferable) or you can just delete them.disable legalNotice during system startup in Window Registry

Hope this helps…

Try it yourself and let me know if you face any difficulty.

2 thoughts on “How To Display Legal Notice Dialog Box During System Startup in Windows”

  1. @anonymous Type in your message under the 'Value data' field of the string value "LegalNoticeText" (check 4th step above)
    If you leave that blank than you won't be getting any message.

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