How to change the "Its now safe to turn off "message 1

[PerFnurt]

Hiya,

I want to change the "It is now safe to turn off the computer" message displayed after shutdown. I don't want to do a automatic poweroff.

Back in the old days there were some .sys files, but how can one tweak it in Win2000?


Thanks


/Per
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[jasimpson]

Hi,

Not sure about this but did some googling around and found this tool :-

http://www.pt.lu/comnet/desc/reshacker.html

called Resource Hacker. Apparently it will let you do this, but I have never tried it myself.

Good luck.

J.

PS - Found another site that might contain info about WHAT to do with the app. :-

http://www.getskinned.org/forums/index.php?showtopic=579

 

[PerFnurt]

Yuk. Wasn't quite the answer I was hoping for...but thanks anyway.

/Per
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[jmaddone]

You might look at thread616-531992 checking APM worked for me.

 

[PerFnurt]

Well, as mentioned: I don't want to do a automatic poweroff

/Per
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[mastermagik1]

if you just want it to display the messege

Open your registry and find the HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon key.

Create a new string value, or modify the existing value, called PowerdownAfterShutdown and set it to "1" to power off the computer at shutdown, or "0" to reboot or sit at the NOW SAFE screen, (this varies from system to system, depends on the BIOS).

Restart Windows.

Registry Settings
System Key: [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon]
Value Name: PowerdownAfterShutdown
Data Type: REG_SZ (String Value)
Value Data: (0 = default, 1 = power down)

 

[PerFnurt]

>if you just want it to display the messege

No, I want do display a message defined by me.

/Per
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[PerFnurt]

jasimpson properly understood and answered my qustion.

It was just not the answer I wanter to get...

/Per
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[bcastner]

PerFnurt,

jasimpson's answer is the only possible one. You can be a little more clever using the shutdown tool, as you can force an event log entry, and you can be a lot more clever during logon.

Let me take this opportunity to thank Angus Johnson for the Resource Hacker utility. Just an excellent piece of work. Thanks Angus.

 

[nlm9802]

resource hacker and LIM ( I believe its at lim.gussoh.com or something like that.. google for it) are excellent utilities for changing your bootup/shutdown/locked windows, among other things.
LIM will do what you're wanting to do. doing it via .sys files isn't going to work.

 

[PerFnurt]

Yes, well, its not primarily for me as such, but rather for the customers that use our application, and I dont want to twiddle with their OS files like that.

Oh well...

/Per
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