... Enabling Verbose Startup, Shutdown, Logon, and Logoff Status Messages. Starting with Windows 2000, you can configure the system to receive verbose startup, shutdown, logon, and logoff status ... logon, and logoff status messages. Additional information contained in these status messages may be helpful when you are troubleshooting slow startup, shutdown, logon, or logoff behavior. As usual, ... registry. To enable verbose status messages for a group of computers in a domain environment: 1. Click Start, point to Administrative Tools, and start the Active Directory Users and Computers MMC...