Re: How to display message and option before logon screen

On Wed, 26 Apr 2006 19:04:01 -0700, JC wrote in
microsoft.public.windowsxp.security_admin:

Thanks for the suggestions, I've tried these already. The only problem is
that the message only displays an Ok button. I wan't the users to be able to
select whether to continue to the login screen or to cancel. If the user
cancels, Windows should shutdown.

I'm thinking maybe a custom application is the solution but the challenge is
calling the application before displaying the logon screen.

What are your thoughts on this?
[snip]

I'm certain that applications can be run in the Machine Startup script -
that's how software installations, patches, and other stuff is
distributed. You could just try it and find out.

The one problem I can vaguely remember when I tried this some years ago
is a racing condition between the desktop interactions of the Machine
Startup script and GINA's logon screen - it seems asynchronous and there
is no way of ensuring that the Machine Startup script gets there first.
However, even if the user sees the logon box first and does login, your
startup script can still log her out if the affirmation button is not
clicked.

The proper way to do this seems to me to rewrite a replacement GINA -
not a trivial task.

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