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Change Crtl+Alt+Delete Screen

Hi There,

At my old workplace, all the workstations had the company Ctrl-Alt-Delete screen logo/banner. How can I change the Pictures and Text on the the screen that says Welcome to Windows "Press Ctrl-Alt-Delete to Begin" banner on Windows 2000/XP for all the workstations (DOMAIN WIDE) by either using logon.bat or GPO on the DC?

I want to make such changes on the DC level so that I do not have to go into each workstation one by one.

I have read this link here but this is far fetch from what I am trying to do. The answers posted on this link didn't even answer the primary question that was asked. (https://www.experts-exchange.com/questions/20861347/Change-Crtl-Alt-Delete-Screen.html?query=logon+prompt+custom+windows+2000&clearTAFilter=true)

Please post reply only if you are VERY SURE on how to do it or had done it before on the workstations DOMAIN WIDE not just individual as I don't plan to visiting each machine. Thanks,

Wayne

Pete Long

>>Please post reply only if you are VERY SURE on how to do it or had done it before on the workstations DOMAIN WIDE not just individual as I don't plan to visiting each machine. Thanks,

The only Time Ive ever done this is on Windows machies (XP and 2K) on a NOVELL network where you can edit the "press CTRL+ALT+DELETE" bitmap which was installed with the Novell client

allstick

ASKER

Hi Pete,

Thanks for your quick response. So there isn't anyway to get this done on Windows 2000 Domain Controller or through GPO?

Wayne

Pete Long

As far as Im aware no - you can hack startup .dlls to do it on an odd machine

but a) thats a fanny about and b) you cant roll it out to everyone without doing it manually

you can get it to fire up a legal notice - as mentioned in the other thread - which is OK but it only displays text (thought this you can roll out)

or you can chage the bitmap displayed at start - DONT fanny around with the startup screen saver unless you want your users to sit for tem inutes before they see your artwork - and a word of warning Server 2003 does NOT like people messing with logon.scr (see password recovery on my website)

I know what you are trying to acheive but to the best of my knowledge this can only be done with a Novell client

Pete

allstick

ASKER

Hi Pete,

Thanks for the answer. That explains why I couldn't find any info on this.

Wayne

allstick

ASKER

Hi Pete,

I was about to close the question but it just occur to me that you were speaking of "Novell CTRL+ALT+DELETE" screen. Was it the Novell logon screen you were talking about? I was referring to "Windows CTRL+ALT+DELETE".

Thanks,

Wayne

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allstick

ASKER

Hi Pete,

Thank you for the clarification. However, I am sure that the screen I was referring to was Windows CTRL+ALT+DELETE screen because I have seen this at another company I was visiting. Except their's was fancier with active desktop background linking the company's intranet to the desktop (I know the active desktop can be done through the GPO).

Wayne