Turn off the Display of Startup, Shutdown, Logon, and Logoff Messages

Contributed by AlexTheBeast January 23, 2005  
Tagged: Windows networking

Reghack to display these common status messages.

1. Click Start
2. Click Run
3. In the textbox type regedit and click OK
4. Navigate to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\policies\system
5. Click the Edit Menu
6. Select New and DWORD value
7. Select this new entry and name it: DisableStatusMessages
5. Double-click this entry
6. Set value data to 1
7. Click OK
8. Close regedit and reboot

Please backup your system and buy life-insurance before editing your registry.