Windows XP Pro Question

[wantabe2]

I am running a Win XP Pro system. When a user shuts down or starts up the system, I need to have a message pop up saying welcome or goddbye & some other things. I know there is a way in Win 2000 to do this on startup, but I need this to happen on an XP machine on shutdown. How would I do this. Thanks

[pam123]

Start>Control Panel> Users.
click "Change the way users log on and off".
That will get you to the screen where you can enable the XP welcome screen and the windows shutdown screen.

[DragonNOA1]

I don't think that is what he meant Pam. He wants a window to pop up upon boot with a message in it for all users of the computer.

[wantabe2]

Thanks, I need a screen or something to be seen when a user shuts down the computer. I am putting a reminder for the users to back up a certain program. If it was on startup, I would put it in a script but since I need it to come up when the user shuts down, I am stumped. Thanks

[pam123]

Oh now I get it.
I think I saw something that would do that a few months ago and, if you don't mind waiting, I'll go hunting for it later this evening.

[andyms18a]

i use a prog named poweroff from http://users.pandora.be/jbosman/applications.html
it will even run the backup prog for you and its free

[pam123]

No waiting after all.
This is what I saw but it's been updated since I looked back in March : http://lists.gpick.com/pages/Reminders.htm

One of them should do what you want.

[Statica]

For startup messages you could do this:
Open regedit and go to :
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon
Create/Modify the key LegalNoticeCaption to be the title of your popup window (for example wantabe2 CyberSystems)
Create/Modify the key LegalNoticeText to be the text of your popup window (like Unauthorized users will be prosecuted, your activities are logged etc etc)

I dont quite know about shut down messages when choosing shutdown from the start menu, however, you can accomplish a similar msg with a shortcut to shutdown.
Before you begin review the command syntax for "shutdown.exe by typing shutdown /? in a cmd prompt
Then you can create a shortcut to it with command line options as you wish.
For example:
shutdown -c "Bye bye" comment will give a msg of Bye Bye when shutting down.
If you actually want to use eventID's then the situation is different so post back here.

HTH

Addendum:
If a reminder is all you need then also look into any existing programs you have; like Outlook will give a reminder if you set a recurring message. Personally, doing stuff natively on XP makes for a cleaner registry/system.
Cheers