Disappeared Message Boxes

Question

When certain message boxes appear in windows, you sometimes get the option to tick a box saying "do not show this message again". If you do this, how do you re-enable the message boxes?  The one in question concerns the System Configuration Utility (msconfig). If you make any changes in msconfig, you are given the option to exit with or without restarting. If you restart, you are given a message telling "you have made changes to the System Configuration Utility, do you want save them?"  or something like that. This is the message I must of ticked by accident not to show again & I would like to re-enable it. Any ideas how I can do this or any other similar messages? Is just a registry tweak?

Answer 1

Hi....well I cannot explain why its doing that, however, if you recreate that entry in the Registry again, you can Export that key to your desktop or Documents folder

then double click on that .reg file each time you go playing with the MSconfig program

I know that's not a "Fix" but it will work ;)

Answer 2

Hi omnidekka

If you check the option Don’t show this message again, it will never appear again

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Answer 3

Hi omnidekka

Instead of changing the Value, Delete the key as mentioned below

1. Open the Start Menu.

2. In the white line (Start Search) area, type regedit and press Enter.

3. Click the Continue button for the UAC prompt.

4. In regedit, go to:

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Shared Tools\MsConfig

5. In the right pane of MsConfig, right click on NoRebootUI and click Delete.

6. Click on Yes to confirm.

7. Close regedit.

Please Post back and let us know if this resolved the issue - thank you

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This is basically what I tried from the first reply, it only changes exit message before reboot, not the after reboot message which is the one I want to restore. I think this goes something like "you have made changes to the system configuration utility etc etc".

Answer 4

Hi omnidekka

Instead of changing the Value, Delete the key as mentioned below

1. Open the Start Menu.

2. In the white line (Start Search) area, type regedit and press Enter.

3. Click the Continue button for the UAC prompt.

4. In regedit, go to:

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Shared Tools\MsConfig

5. In the right pane of MsConfig, right click on NoRebootUI and click Delete.

6. Click on Yes to confirm.

7. Close regedit.

Please Post back and let us know if this resolved the issue - thank you

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Ken

Microsoft Answers Support Engineer

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Answer 5

No, this did not do it, all this done was to stop the exit with or without restart message from coming up when you applied changes in msconfig.