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by danniebrown2002

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The PC I?m working on runs 2000 Professional. After boot up of the OS I?m taken to a Windows Security Message instead of a login screen. The Windows Security Message is as follows: Failed to login to the Windows Workstation. Make sure you username and connection information are correct? I click OK and then I?m taken to the login screen. I believe someone in the Call Center was experimenting and found a way to do this. Any suggestions on how to get rid of it?

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by joseph moore

Yep.
LegalNoticeCaption and LegalNoticeText.
These are 2 entries in the Registry.
Open Regedit and go to
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\policies\system
In the right pane with all of the values, you will see LegalNoticeCaption and LegalNoticeText.
Just double-click each one, and delete all text, so they are both empty when you are done.
After that, just log out, and when you start to log in, you won't get that fake message anymore.

Caption is the title forthe box, and Text is the actual message in the box itself. YOu can put anything you want in there, or just leave 'em blank to not have them do anything.

hope this helps

by beermonster

Hi,
I think you'll find that what has happened is that someone has set the workstation to log in automatically. however, whatever credentials they told the autologin to use are incorrect, so the workstation boots, tries to autologin, rejects the credentials and displays the message you are seeing. Check out the following registry keys -

HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon\AutoAdminLogon

If this is set to 1 then autologon is enabled

HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon\DefaultUserName
If populated, shows the name of the account being used by autologin

HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon\DefaultPassword
If populated, shows the password being used
by autologin

To stop it, reset the autoadminlogin key to 0
and delete the values (IE edit them - not delete them) on the other two. Hope this helps...

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