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Logon legal notice message

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by john0001

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I would like to display a legal notice message without having the user acknowledge the message. For example, display the message for a 3 seconds then continue on. I am aware of the Registry parameters LegalNoticeCaption, and LegalNoticeText, but these defaults require the user to acknowledge the message. I guess I would have to add something to the startup script. How would I do this?

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by timwalsh

I think you need to look at this from a different angle.
If you are trying to show a true legal notice (i.e. This computer belongs to XYZ Corporation and is to be used only for business purposes. If used for any other purpose, the user is subjectto disciplinary action.) without forcing a user to acknowledge the notice as a precondition for use of the computer (by having the notice disappear automatically), the user can always claim later that they never saw the notice (and thus weren't aware of the precondition of use). You might as well not even bother putting up a notice. You have no legal recourse to enforce that precondition.
Conversely, if the user has to physically do something (click okay or exit), legally they have acknowledged the existance of a precondition of use (even if they didn't read it).

by gensor

I agree with the answer submitted by Tim Walsh.

But if you really only want to display the message for 3 seconds you could put it in the logon script. e.g.
echo MY Legal Message
sleep 3

Sleep comes with the NT reskit.

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