Custmizing shutdown

I'm a bit of a newbie at vbscript and am looking for some help.
I have an issue with people (not all, but some) that cannot read a posted sign.
How can I include a timed message box/screen to display on the monitor when "START","SHUTDOWN" or "LOGOFF" is selected (am using a LAN network).
Any help would be appreciated..[?][?]

YOu want to prevent people from logoff ? I would suggest using GPO.

I'm with token on this. You can do various things with GPO and the registry such as makeing the logoff menuoption unavailable. To do this with a script, it would have to be running all the time using resources.

If you don't have AD you should also be able to do this via local policy.

Exactly!

Or the problem might be the posted sign itself. Try to make it bigger, brighter and with hightly contrasted colors and appropriate symbols (eg: a bomb figure kinda thingy) that clearly idenfities what would happen if they log off. You could also point out that how deadly and how severe conquences would be if the instructions on the big bright posted sign is not followed to the last character.

Thankyou for your response one and all.
I maybe should have defined my issue a little better though.
Here we go: A data projector is chewing through a large number of lamps as certain people are too illiterate to read the sign on the wall "Turn off projector lamp".
I would like to halt the "Shutdown" or "LogOff" procedure and include a message box or similar to appear on the screen when they have selected the "Start" menu and selected "Shutdown" or "LogOff" for a period of 5-10 seconds. Once this msgbox has timed out, I would like the computer to continue with the chosen option.
regards...confused!![B)][B)]

I am not sure I understand the computer-to-projector setup, but couldn't you solve this problem by placing an appliance timer between the projector and the wall outlet?

I still don't exactly understand the purpose of having a message box while allowing users to proceed what they intend to do. Did you want the users to, or not to, be able to shut down or logoff the computer ?

Base on what I understand so far, I assume you want the projector to be turned off when it is not in use, but why did it have anything to do with whether a user chooses to shutdown a computer or logoff ? On top of that, a message box is shown when such action is exercised and allows the action to continue to proceed. I'm really sorry but the more I think about it, the more confused I'm.

From what I understand, he is looking to display a message on the screen telling people to turn off the projector that is connected to a PC, possibly in a training room. Am I close?

Now, if I am correct, I am not sure what can be done via script for this, is it possible to use a vbscript in the startup/shutdown portion of the local policy? Other than that, will have to think about it more.

Without elaborating, a training room is as good as it gets.
Rather than a message box, ...oh! this is just too hard. I've just found out that any GPO for this machine will be overwritten when the Server kicks in (bastard of being of a LAN).
I appreciate all your advice, but I think I may just leave this one for the Ever Diminishing Services aka EDS)
Again, thanks to you all, this has proved to be an excellent forum, keep it up!

ahh.. now that makes much more sense mbouchard!

I don't think it is possible to do that with scripts. Even if it does, it would probably requires more system resources than I want it to be since monitoring any type of events using scripts are potentially resource consuming.

What I can suggest, however, is that you can use scripts (placed on desktop of some places where it is readily visible to your users) to shutdown or logff a user session instead of using the Start Menu. So in the scripts, you will be able to add any kind of message you want to. If GPO configuration is allowed on the site, domain, or OU level, you can use GPO to disable those 2 options so users are forced to use the script to shutdown and/or log off.

Once again, thanks Token. This sounds like the solution that I was looking for. This has given me some renewed confidence that I may be able to solve this problem myself, with your guidence.
My next option was to hire some "heavies" to ensure that users were operating this expensive equipment with respect.
Cheers Big Ears!!!

No problem Smokey, you're always welcome.

Heavies sounds like a good idea :D