HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer
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Data type
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Range
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Default value
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REG_DWORD
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0 | 1
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0
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Description
Determines whether the
Getting Started with Windows 2000
welcome screen automatically appears in Windows 2000 Professional each time a user logs on.
This entry stores the setting of the
Don't display welcome screen at logon
Group Policy in the User Configuration folder. Group Policy adds this entry to the registry with a value of 1 when you enable the policy. If you disable the policy or set it to
Not configured,
Group Policy deletes this entry from the registry, and the system behaves as though the value is 0.
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Value
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Meaning
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0 (or not in the registry)
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The policy is disabled or not configured. The welcome screen automatically appears in Windows 2000 Professional each time a user logs on.
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1
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The policy is enabled. The welcome screen does not automatically appear when a user logs on, although the user can display the screen on demand.
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Change method
To change the value of this entry, use Group Policy. This entry corresponds to the
Don't display welcome screen at logon
Group Policy (User Configuration\Administrative Templates\System).
To suppress the welcome screen without setting a policy, clear the
Show this screen at startup
check box on the welcome screen.
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Note
This entry takes precedence over a user setting. If the
Don't display welcome screen at logon
policy is enabled (the value of this entry is 1), the system ignores both the setting of the
Show this screen at startup
check box on the welcome screen and the value of the
Show
entry, which stores the check box setting.
This entry applies only to Windows 2000 Professional. It does not affect the
Configure Your Server on Windows 2000 Server
welcome screen on Windows 2000 Server.
This entry can appear in both the HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE and the HKEY_CURRENT_USER subtrees. If the entry appears in both places, the value of the entry in HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE takes precedence over the value in HKEY_CURRENT_USER.
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Tip
To display the welcome screen, click
Start,
point to
Programs,
point to
Accessories,
point to
System Tools,
and then click
Getting Started.
For detailed information about particular Group Policy settings, see the
Windows 2000 Resource Kit
Group Policy Reference.
For general information about Group Policy, see Windows 2000 Server Help or Windows 2000 Professional Help.
To see a table associating policies with their corresponding registry entries, see the
Group Policy Registry Table
.
Related Entries
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NoWelcomeScreen (HKLM)
Show