How to add custom logon message on Windows 7.

If you are using Windows 7, you should have seen the login screen of Windows 7. Now suppose take a situation where you have pc at office or a common computer where you want show users some of your comments or rules. Well then you need to customize the login screen of Windows 7.In the post I will explain how to do it through simple Windows Registry trick. Follow the below article.

  1. Press Windows key + R to open RUN box and type Regedit and click OK.
  2. Navigate to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\System
  3. On the right pane find “legalnoticecaption” , double click it and enter the what ever name you want for caption. (Below example I have named caption as “test” ,it can be any name of your choice.)
  4. Now to edit the text click on “legalnoticetext”, enter the text which you want to display below caption.
  5. Close the registry editor, restart the pc, now you will your text in space of default Windows 7 login screen. You can revert back to normal logon screen by following same steps and removing both caption and text.

Note: You should have administrative rights to achieve this change.

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