Some questions regardsing Win2K

[slycer]

I am creating a Image CD for my company so we can have Win2K on all of our workstations. However I am running into some problems I was wondering if anyone could help me with:

1.)Where is the boot.ini file located in Win2k?
2.)This one is the most dificult to exaplin: I want to put our company logo on the screen that appears when "press ctrl alt delete" appears, but i can find that file

3.)We also want to put a warning message on the computer as users log on, how do we do that?

any help would be greatly appreciated

 

[stevends]

1) you find the boot.ini on c:\ (if W2K is installed on C-drive)
but you need to go to my computer => Tools => Folder options => tab View => and you nee to unselect the option "hide protected operating system files" and select "show hidden files and folders"

 

[jrbarnett]

Not quite sure about 2, but the answer to q1 is that
it is stored in the root directory of the boot hard drive partition.

To answer Q3, go to registry editor and HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows NT\CUrrentVersion\WinLogon

LegalNoticeText key has the message text, and LegalNoticeCaption has the window title for your message.

John

 

[dermoyn]

A slight amendment to Stevends suggestion above:

boot.ini will be on C: no matter where Win2k is installed.

Assuming that is that you are just using NTLDR and not some other boot manager that hides partitions so OSes stand alone.

Dermot

 

[GrnEyedLdy]

Slycer,


"We also want to put a warning message on the computer as users log on, how do we do that?

Hkey_Local_Machine|Software|Microsoft|WindowsNT|CurrentVersion|Winlogon

Dbl-click WinLogOn and you will have the opportunity to manipulate the 'Legal Notice Text'.


Hope this helps,

Patty

 

[slycer]

Thanks for all of you help guys, that really helped alot. However, I am still having trouble finding the boot.ini. On Winnt, it is on the C: partition, but I looked all over the C: parition of Win2K (yes all files are un hidden) but nothing. What I am trying to do is change the part when is says "select operating system" and give you the countdown. I have WIN2K professional on there twice and I need to get rid of one. Is there another way to do that in Win2k?

 

[jrbarnett]

Slycer

You can either use Start -> Search -> Files and folders with BOOT.INI as filename in Local Hard drives to locate it, or to set the default OS and timeout:

Right click my computer -> Properties -> Advanced tab -> click Startup and recovery button

You can then select the default operating system and timeout for the list.

John

 

[jrbarnett]

Slycer
A quick addendum to using search to locate Boot.ini: You will need to use "Unhide protected system files and folders" in Tools -> Folder Options
before Search will show it for you.

John

 

[ifix1]

i'm running win2000 pro and it in c: on mine
try useing search to look for it

hope this helps

 

[ifix1]

you also have to uncheck "hide protected operating system files" in the same area as view all files..it's 2 selections down from view all files