Pop Up A Banner When Windows Boots - Miscellaneous Windows XP Registry Hack

You might want to have a banner pop up when a user is going to log on, a banner that contains any kind of message you want to display. This can be used to display the company’s policy, for example. Or a warning message to trespassers telling them to buzz off!

Navigate to:

HLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\WindowsNT

\CurrentVersion\WinLogon

Create a new String Value here called LegalNoticeCaption. Enter whatever you want to see in the bar at the top. Now create another new String Value called LegalNoticeText. Modify it to the message you want to display each time Windows boots.

The message will be displayed at the next logon.

Print Job Pop-Ups - Hardware Enhancement Windows XP Registry Hack

You might or might not, by default, be receiving a notification (by way of a pop-up message) when your print job has been completed. If you do and it’s an irritant, or if you don’t and you need it, use this Registry edit.

Navigate to:
HLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Print\Providers

Here, create or modify a (the) DWORD value called NetPopup. Set its value to 1 to enable the pop-up notifications, and to 0 to disable them. Restart the Print Spooler service for the change to take effect. You might need to restart Windows if that doesn’t work.

Change The Window Title In WMP - Miscellaneous Windows XP Registry Hack

Use this hack if you want to give the Windows Media Player window title something descriptive and/or creative, for example, “WMP”. (This is a non-creative, non-descriptive title, but you can do better.)

Navigate to:

HCU\Software\Policies\Microsoft\

WindowsMediaPlayer

And to:

HLM\Software\Policies\Microsoft\

WindowsMediaPlayer

Set the String Value for the setting TitleBar to the required text you wish to display, in our sad case, “WMP”. To revert to the default title, delete the TitleBar setting entirely. Just restart WMP to see the effect.