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Mark V
Joanna wrote in
Firstly lots of things can run prior to a User logon. Not just
services.
But I suspect you are on the wrong track. It may be that you have a
"Legal Notice" set which would appear before the logon prompt.
Look at
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion
\Winlogon\
for "LegalNoticeCaption", "LegalNoticeText" valunames and data.
Make a registry backup or at least export that key first. Then
remove the actual data from those valuenames. If this is a corporate
system consult with the administrators.
Or it could be something else of course.
[ snipped service list]Hi there,
I'm trying to solve the mystery of why a strange, title-less
window pops up on my PC before the logon window appears. I have
to click 'OK' on this blank window that has nothing but a 'zero'
as its 'message' in order for my PC to continue booting. I read
online that only services can run before the logon screen appears,
so that at least narrows it down to something that's loading from
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services (doesn't
it..?!). Anyway, I've spent all night trawling through every
single entry and I've made a list of all those that have an data
value of '2' in their "Start" D-Word value (as I discovered just
hours beforehand by trial and error that an entry of '2' =
'automatic' in services . I would like someone to tell me if
anything below looks weird (for example, I'm curious as to what
'Fips' might be!).
Firstly lots of things can run prior to a User logon. Not just
services.
But I suspect you are on the wrong track. It may be that you have a
"Legal Notice" set which would appear before the logon prompt.
Look at
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion
\Winlogon\
for "LegalNoticeCaption", "LegalNoticeText" valunames and data.
Make a registry backup or at least export that key first. Then
remove the actual data from those valuenames. If this is a corporate
system consult with the administrators.
Or it could be something else of course.