You’ll be editing both of these to create your message.

Double-click thelegalnoticecaptionvalue to open its properties window.

Thelegalnoticecaptionvalue serves as the title of your message.

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It appears at the top and in a slightly larger font than the text of the message.

Of course, if you only want a very short message, feel free to just uselegalnoticecaptionand leavelegalnoticetextblank.

You just want to keep in mind that there’s no formatting available, including carriage returns.

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So key in all your text on one line before you copy and paste it.

The regular text is shown out to the right; the hexadecimal characters on the left.

One character of normal text is four characters on the binary side.

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It make take a couple of attempts to get the placement just where you want it.

After clicking the right space, bang out 0D00.

This is the hexadecimal character for a carriage return.

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One hack adds a legal notice caption and text and the other removes them, restoring the default setting.

Both hacks are included in the following ZIP file.

When you’re done making edits, save the REG file.

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you might then double-nudge the file and follow the prompts to add the material to the Registry.

However, you could’t insert two carriage returns in a row to create a blank line between paragraphs.

When you’re done typing your message, click “OK.”

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