Increasing text size within LegalNoticeText - Registry

From: robh (robh@thirdarrow.org)
Date: 02/20/03 

From: "robh" <robh@thirdarrow.org>
Date: Thu, 20 Feb 2003 06:01:50 -0800

Yes it can be done, but it isn't easy.

Warning: These instructions involve modifying a W2K DLL
file and could cause your system to become unstable.
Therefore, I do not recommend doing this.

The popup window is from MSGina.dll which reads the text
from the registry entries. Using the Resource Hacker tool
(available from
http://www.users.on.net/johnson/resourcehacker/) open
MSGina.dll, open the 2500 dialog entry, amend the font
size and hit the Compile Script button. This will show you
the size of the popup window.

As this file is a protected DLL you'll need to save it
with another name otherwise your changes will be lost.
Then boot into DOS and rename the saved file to
MSGINA.DLL, having taken a backup of the original of
course. Note if you have an NTFS partition you'll need a
utility like NTFSDOS to mount it.

Boot back into W2K, hit CTRL-ALT-DEL and your warning will
be in the text size you specified!

>-----Original Message-----
>Hi,
>
>Could anyone out there be able to help. I have been asked
>to increase the size of the text within
>the "LegalNoticeText" within the registry so that users
>who logon can read the companies standard security
>policy - apparently the text is too small for users to
>read, can this be done?
>
>HKEY_Local_Machine\SOFTWARE\MICROSOFT\WINDOWS
>NT\CURRENTVERSION\WINLOGON
>
>Thanks ;-)
>.
>

Relevant Pages

  • Re: Increasing text size within LegalNoticeText - Registry
    ... > Warning: These instructions involve modifying a W2K DLL ... > from the registry entries. ... > Boot back into W2K, hit CTRL-ALT-DEL and your warning will ...
    (microsoft.public.win2000.security)
  • can not mount root slice in single user mode
    ... Now I am not able to re-edit the vfstab file to boot it of the raw ... After running fsck, when I try to boot it off manually from ... WARNING: forceload of misc/md_trans failed ...
    (SunManagers)
  • Re: Help: hard drive issue
    ... The problem is I boot it to single user model from CD, and I do disk analyze ... And now I can't even boot it up, here is what I got, it just stuck there. ... WARNING: ufs log for / changed state to Error ... Write protect error during write ...
    (comp.sys.sun.admin)
  • Trap 3e when booting Tatung Ultra 10
    ... and am now getting "Trap 3e" when I power on the system ... HOWEVER, it boots fine when I type the command, boot. ... WARNING: forceload of misc/md_trans failed ...
    (SunManagers)
  • Re: Can not get past the welcome screen
    ... Your issue is caused by a malware infestation.. ... *WARNING* Do NOT follow any advice given by the people listed below. ... switched on to get to the boot menu. ... siamoose has one. ...
    (microsoft.public.windowsxp.general)