Set a greeting message that appears before the desktop

Would you like to display a
message before the desktop appears
every time you boot? You can do this
in almost no time with a small change
in the registry. Click on “Start” and
enter the term “regedit” under “Search
programs/fi les”. Windows presents the
search result directly in the Start menu.
Under “Programs”, click on “regedit.
exe” with the right button of the mouse.
In the context menu, select “Run as
administrator”. If required, authorise this
instruction by selecting a user account
with administrator rights and entering the
required password.
After that, in the left pane of the
registry editor, navigate to the key
“HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\
Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\
Policies\System”. Now, you will see the
character strings “legalnoticecaption” and
“legalnoticetext” in the right section.
Using “legalnoticecaption”, defi ne
a title for your message, and enter
the actual message text under
“legalnoticetext”. After that, double
click on the value names and enter your
details under “Value” in the following
dialogue “Edit string”. Finally, close the
registry editor and restart your PC for the
settings to take eff ect.