Windows – How to display additional boot and shutdown information on the Windows 7 welcome screen

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There is a small tweak, I believe it is a registry key, that allows to display additional information on the Welcome and Shutting down screens of Windows 7 (and most likely Vista, too). I have activated this tweak on one of my systems; unfortunately I forgot how I did it, and I can't seem to find the website that originally gave me that information.

Usually, the Windows 7 welcome screen will just display "Welcome" when logging in. With the tweak activated, my Welcome screen gives status information such as "Loading user settings" or "Preparing desktop". When shutting down, the default screen simply says "Shutting down". With the tweak activated, it gives additional status information such as "Stopping Windows services". This appears the same way that Windows gives information when updates are installed or configured during the startup or shutdown procedure, and I find them quite helpful in getting a feel for what task takes how long during that process.

The only setting I was able to find is the Boot log checkbox on the Boot tab of the msconfig application. However, this results in Windows displaying console logs of drivers it is loading, etc., instead of the animated Windows title. This is NOT the setting I am looking for. The "additional boot information" setting that I have activated on this system still displays the regular animated Windows logo, and only replaces the strings displayed on the blue Welcome and Shutdown screens.

Could someone direct me to the registry key (or whatever setting) that is used to get this behaviour?

Edit: Here are a few pictures of the enhanced Welcome and Shutdown screens taken with my mobile phone—they're in German though.

^{Login screen "Waiting for User Profile Service"}

^{Login screen "Preparing desktop"}

^{Logout screen "Stopping Windows services":}

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Type regedit in RUN dialog box and press Enter. It'll open Registry Editor.

Now go to following key:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\ Policies\System

In right-side pane, look for a DWORD VerboseStatus. If you can't find it, create a new DWORD and set its name to VerboseStatus
Now change its value to any of following depending upon your requirements:
- 0 - To Disable Verbose Status Message
- 1 - To Enable Verbose Status Message
That's it. Close Registry Editor and restart your system to apply the changes.

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Here's what you need to do. Use the special accounts registry entry to hide the administrator account (and whatever other accounts you want to hide) from the login screen. Then, configure UAC to prompt for both a username and password, instead of just showing the clickable usernames. This will let you elevate to one of the hidden accounts, because it behaves much like the "do not display last username" setting does for the login. This is what it will look like; you can type in any (administator's) username:

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In order to configure this, all you have to do is create one registry value. Go to HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies and create a key called CredUI if it doesn't already exist. Then, within CredUI, create a DWORD called EnumerateAdministrators with the value 0x00000000. That's it! Now you can elevate to any account you want, and hide any account you want.

If you don't want to edit the registry by hand, you can paste the following code into notepad, and save it as a file with a .reg extension, then open the file to add the data to the registry.

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Disabling the Logon UI is not possible on desktop or server operating systems in any way supported by Microsoft. At best, you could hack it away. Since it won’t speed things up, the screen would simply be blank during that time. Not exactly what you’d call user experience.

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This behavior also consistent with earlier Windows NT versions. They all have the Logon UI visible after early boot processes are finished.

Here’s the relevant MSDN page about Windows 8.1 Embedded Industry. Apparently, you can get what you want simply by activating Custom Logon:

By default, Custom Logon launches directly into the shell without displaying the sign-in UI when automatic sign-in is enabled.

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