Re: Increasing text size within LegalNoticeText - Registry

From: Joe Richards [MVP] (humorexpress@hotmail.com)
Date: 02/20/03 

From: "Joe Richards [MVP]" <humorexpress@hotmail.com>
Date: Thu, 20 Feb 2003 16:15:23 -0500

Excellent way to void your support. Thanks for sharing. 

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Joe Richards
www.joeware.net
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"robh" <robh@thirdarrow.org> wrote in message
news:028401c2d8e8$9d242840$2f01280a@phx.gbl...
> 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 ;-)
> >.
> >