Re: Increasing text size within LegalNoticeText - Registry

From: Joe Richards [MVP] (humorexpress@hotmail.com)
Date: 02/21/03 

From: "Joe Richards [MVP]" <humorexpress@hotmail.com>
Date: Thu, 20 Feb 2003 19:13:57 -0500

LOL!

:o) 

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Joe Richards
www.joeware.net
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"robh" <robh@thirdarrow.org> wrote in message
news:073801c2d935$b66e6f20$3001280a@phx.gbl...
> That's why I didn't recommend doing it :-)
>
> >-----Original Message-----
> >Excellent way to void your support. Thanks for sharing.
> >
> >--
> >Joe Richards
> >www.joeware.net
> >---
> >
> >"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 ;-)
> >> >.
> >> >
> >
> >
> >.
> >