Microsoft KB Archive/238149

= How to Add a Carriage Return to the Legal Notice Text in Windows NT =

Article ID: 238149

Article Last Modified on 11/1/2006

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APPLIES TO


 * Microsoft Windows NT Workstation 4.0 Developer Edition
 * Microsoft Windows NT Server 4.0 Standard Edition
 * Microsoft Windows NT Server 4.0 Enterprise Edition

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This article was previously published under Q238149



IMPORTANT: This article contains information about modifying the registry. Before you modify the registry, make sure to back it up and make sure that you understand how to restore the registry if a problem occurs. For information about how to back up, restore, and edit the registry, click the following article number to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

256986 Description of the Microsoft Windows Registry



SUMMARY
This article describes how to add a carriage return to the Legal Notice text in Windows NT.



MORE INFORMATION
You can configure Windows NT to display a Legal Notice message to users before they can log on to the system. At the end of the message, users must click OK before the logon dialog box is displayed.

If the message contains more than one paragraph, you can add a carriage return so that the message is displayed as intended (even if the display resolution on the computer changes). For additional information about the Legal Notice banner in Windows NT, please click the article number below to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

101063 Windows Logon Welcome, Displaying Warning Message

WARNING: If you use Registry Editor incorrectly, you may cause serious problems that may require you to reinstall your operating system. Microsoft cannot guarantee that you can solve problems that result from using Registry Editor incorrectly. Use Registry Editor at your own risk.

To add a carriage return to the Legal Notice text of a logon dialog box, follow these steps:  Start Registry Editor (Regedt32.exe). Locate the following registry key:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon

 Locate and double-click the LegalNoticeText value. Type the text that you want displayed in the Legal Notice message, and then click OK. On the Edit menu, click Binary. This opens the text of the message in the binary editor. Each letter of the message (including spaces) is represented in hexadecimal, with four characters in the binary editor representing one letter of text in the message. To insert a carriage return after a line of text, click the space just after the last character in the message where you want to put the first carriage return, type 0D00, and then click OK.</li> Remember that one letter of normal text is equal to four characters in the binary editor. Count the number of characters before the next location where you want to put a carriage return, and multiply this by four. Move over this number of spaces in binary mode, and then type 0D00 again.</li> Repeat this process for each carriage return that is needed. You can put two carriage returns next to each other to simulate a new paragraph.</li></ol>

NOTE: The Windows 2000 Registry Editor dialog box that is used for the Windows 2000 Legal Notice text (LegalNoticeText) does not recognize the character 0x0D. Instead, you must insert both the carriage return (0x0D) and line feed (0x0A) characters in that order, for example, 0D000A00.

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