I posted this in the Windows Answers section but was directed here. Below is my issue: I have made the registry changes to activate the Logon Message at boot. I need help finding the setting that will make the Logon Message display at the lock screen (ex: upon waking, after sleep). Does anyone have an idea? Here is some additional information on the issue: Good morning and thank you for your help. My organization has a new Computer Use Agreement message that we instated through group policy on all of our domain computers. This message appears when the computer boots and at logon and logoff. We have 170 neetbooks (not on the domain) that will be checked out to students very soon. I was able to get the message to display on boot at the first ctrl-alt-del and subsequent logoff and logons display the message with ctrl-alt-del, also. Here's the kicker: as these are netbooks, the student will be the only one using it (hopefully) and will not likely be logging off each time they are done for the moment. They will just close the lid. This is where sleep comes in. When they open the lid, habing been already logged in, they get the unlock screen. When ctrl-alt-del is pressed, the Computer Use Agreement message is not displayed. Is there a local policy setting, or registry edit, that will make this message display at the lock screen also? Thanks!

Same steps should work for windows 2008 http://support.microsoft.com/kb/310430 Configuration\Windows Settings \Security Settings\Local Policies\Security Options On a Windows Server 2003-based domain controller: Click Interactive logon: Message title for users attempting to log on, and then type the text that you want to appear in the title bar of the message dialog box. Click Interactive logon: Message text for users attempting to log on, and then type the text of the message that you want to appear in the message dialog box. On a Windows 2000-based domain controller: Click Message title for users attempting to log on, and then type the text that you want to appear in the title bar of the message dialog box. Click Message text for users attempting to log on, and then type the text of the message that you want to appear in the message dialog box.

Hi Brano, Thank you for your response. I have followed these steps, already, and the message does indeed display. However, it only displays for the actual logon, and not the lock screen. Are you aware of a way to make the message appear on the lock screen as well? Thanks!

enable this option Interactive logon: Require domain controller authentication to unlock workstation

Hi, Thank you again. These netbooks are not bound to the domain and have Windows 7 Starter Edition. The OS, as far as I know, does not have Local Security Policy. Will this option work when not bound to a domain? And, is it configurable in Regedit? Thanks!

I am not sure then that "Interactive logon: Require domain controller authentication to unlock workstation" would work in your case then. I don't have Windows 7 Starter so i realy don't know what's available in it. Try this instead. http://support.microsoft.com/kb/281250 time the computer is locked: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon ForceUnlockLogon REG_DWORD 0 - Do not force authentication inline (default) 1 - Require online authentication to unlock You can try setting this value to 1

I am not sure then that "Interactive logon: Require domain controller authentication to unlock workstation" would work in your case then. I don't have Windows 7 Starter so i realy don't know what's available in it. Try this instead. http://support.microsoft.com/kb/281250 time the computer is locked: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon ForceUnlockLogon REG_DWORD 0 - Do not force authentication inline (default) 1 - Require online authentication to unlock You can try setting this value to 1

I tried the ForceUnlockLogon, but this didn't work for me. It still displays the Logon Message at Logon, but not at unlock... Any other suggestions? Thank you for your help.

There is no other key or GPO setting that i know off. Now if you realy want this then you need to get somone to write a script that will capture "unlock screen" events and display your custome message. But that means the script would have to run all the time to be able to do that.