Verbose status messages during boot, logon, logoff and shutdown

6 February 2001 by Snakefoot | Comment » | Trackback Off
Increase the level of status message being shown during startup and shutdown to a more clear picture of what is happening.

Change to verbose with this DWORD registry key:

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE \SOFTWARE \Microsoft \Windows \CurrentVersion \policies \system]
VerboseStatus=1

This setting can also be configured through the Group Policy Editor. Computer Configuration -> Administrative Tools -> System and change the option "Verbose vs. normal status messages".

If the following DWORD registry entry is set to 1 then no messages is shown at all:

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE \SOFTWARE \Microsoft \Windows \CurrentVersion \Policies \System]
DisableStatusMessages = 0 (0 = Show messages, 1 = Hide messages)

More Info MS KB Q316243
More Info MS KB Q325376

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Updated: 20 June 2008

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