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net send for win9x clients

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Hullo there,am terribly confused as to why net send does not work with win9x clients .When i use “net send ” on the network only NT technology computers recieve the message .Is it possible for Win9x clients to recieve this message too?

Will be delighted when helped out?

Emmy Z

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Nope, the Win9x line (95,98,ME) does NOT support the Messenger service, so no Net Send messages to them.
You need a 3rd party app to make this work.
Here is one to try:
http://winpopup-xp.com/net-send-for-windows-98.html

hope this helps

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That’s right, Windows 9x clients do not have a Messenger service by default. I think that you should have Winpopup already installed (it comes with the operating system, I believe), so all you woul dneed to do is put a shortcut to it in the startup folder – and tell your users not to close it, so they can receive messages from you.

Hope this helps.

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winpopup is the way to go…

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