Hiding WinLogon

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Debbie Giuliano

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I am booting to a custom shell that launches an application and that is all the customer wants. I have modified my boot.ini and using the switch /noguiboot and that hides the XP startup but I would also like to hide WinLogon so you do not see anything when you start up or shut down. Are there any recommendations or registry keys that will hide this?

Thanks,

Debbie Giuliano
 
Blank"Debbie Giuliano"
Hello,
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I am booting to a custom shell that launches an
application and that is all the customer wants.
I have modified my boot.ini and using the switch
/noguiboot and that hides the XP startup but I would
also like to hide WinLogon so you do not see anything
when you start up or shut down. Are there any
recommendations or registry keys that will hide this?
Thanks,
Debbie Giuliano
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Somewhere I saw a hint on using the "minlogon" component. I tried to use
that, but I failed. I didn't insist much though. Basically TD kept adding
the winlogon because it was required by the explorer shell, I don't know.
I will have my own shell later, so I'm not too worried with that for now.

Padu
 
Set registry entry
HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\policies\system\DisableStatusMessages
to 1.

This suppresses status messages during logon/logoff (welcome, applying user
settings etc). Combine this registry setting this with the 'autologon'
component (WinLogon only) and you can get a fairly seamless start-up.

If you want to be really clever you can also change the default user desktop
settings so that they have a black background. Normally a black background is
displayed instead of the GUI at the start of the boot, but this changes to blue
later on. If you change the default user background to black then the screen
stays black until the shell is launched.

David
 
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