How to customize welcome screen text's and appearence with Rohos Welcome

Published : August 10, 2005
Applied to: Rohos Logon Key, Rohos Disk

Summary: Many users of Windows 2000 and Windows XP like to tweak the logon screen and lock the PC when they walk away from it (have a lock system with the key in your pocket)
Rohos Logon Key software increases the overall appearence and convience for Windows logon process. Here you will find all the registry tweaks to enhance your welcome screen's appearance for pleasant start-up .

Rohos Logon software highlights:

System clock and date on the welcome screen.

Your logo picture in the background.

Ability to use bigger user pictures on the welcome screen (user account picture).

Diplays LegalNotice text's (text and caption)

Have domain'ed user account on the welcome screen.

Here's map of the welcome screen customized items:
Customized welcome screen: Map showing how to change element on the wlcome screen. Clock on the welcome screen; date and the list of user accounts. Rohos increase the overall appearence and adds convience for Windows logon.

Customized welcome screen: Map showing how to change element on the wlcome screen. Clock on the welcome screen; date and the list of user accounts. Rohos increase the overall appearence and adds convience for Windows logon.

Welcome screen caption text
To customize this text open Rohos -> Windows Login Options dialog and enter new caption text (See tweak for LegalNoticeCaption).
To customize special notice text LegalNoticeText
To customize this text open Rohos -> Windows Login Options dialog and enter new notice text. This can be a corporate message for guest or users awareness.
Corresponding registry tweak for this value:

Key: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon
Value Name: LegalNoticeText
Data Type: String
User Logon prompt string
Use this tweak to change the text on the label. Default text is "Users" :

Key: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon
Value Name: Welcome
Data Type: String
Login prompt message.
The message "Please select user account to start ..." can be changed using :

Key: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon
Value Name: LogonPrompt
Data Type: String
To increase the size of user image on the welcome-screen..
There is the list of user accounts with pictures on the Rohos welcome screen. By default picture size is limited up to 60*60 pix.
You can use this tweak to use much larger pictures for users , up to 150*150

Key: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE \ Software \ Rohos
Value Name: UserIconSize
Data Type: DWORD
value from 40 to 150;

You can suggest new tweak for Rohos.
Welcome screen help text..
Default text is "To change picture or labels on the welcome-screen, configure USB pen drive...". To change it or remove this string use:

Key: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE \ Software \ Rohos
Value Name: WelcomeScreenHelp
Data Type: String
To customize logon screen background picture..
To change background picture for the welcome screen go to Rohos -> Windows Login Options dialog and choose new image file.

Note:

Most of mentioned here values (tweaks) should be created manually. Here's how to create value in the registry:

Click "start"

Choose "run" item

In the Run dialog type "regedit" and press OK.

Regedit window (Windows Registry editor) will appear.

Navigate to certain "Key" (HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE \ ...) using left panel.

Create value that represent tweak option . Picture: How to create new value.

Disclaimer:
Modifying the registry can cause serious problems that may require you to reinstall your operating system. We cannot guarantee that problems resulting from modifications to the registry can be solved. Use the information provided at your own risk.

Warning:
Modifying the registry is recommended only for Advanced users or system administrators.