Custom 404 page

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How can I go about creating a custom 404 page? This is just a client
workstation for thbis scenerio. For example, if a user hits
www.microsoft.com and the site is down or not reachable, I want to default
to my custom 404 page. Is this a registry change?
 
Big D said:
How can I go about creating a custom 404 page? This is just a client
workstation for thbis scenerio. For example, if a user hits
www.microsoft.com and the site is down or not reachable, I want to default
to my custom 404 page. Is this a registry change?
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For example, I have never connected to the internet with windows 2000
professional or XP. If I type in www.microsoft.com and don't even have a
internet connection the default page is displayed. How can I change?
 
Usually, most custom 404 pages are done on the server-side of a particular
web site - that's easy. What you are asking, I think, is to create a custom
404 page on the client-side. IE displays it's default 404 page from the
shdoclc.dll file on the computer. You can bring it up yourself by typing or
pasting this into IE's address bar:

res://shdoclc.dll/404_HTTP.htm

So, you would need to hack that file and change the coding of that section,
and possibly others, to have your custom 404 file displayed when the user's
browser comes across a site it cannot find. Then you'll have to force WinXP
to accept your change file by overriding it's file protection scheme, as
that file is a protected system file.
 
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