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by lbarcena

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We are using winpopup in all our Win9x/ME workstations in order to send and receive messages. We install a shortcut in startup menu to make sure everybody can send and receive messages. However, we need to upgrade to Win2K. What is the equivalent ofwinpopup in this new OS?

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by timthetoolman

Hi,

There's no need to install or start anythng special in Win2k. Its built-in.

The command to send messages is...

E:\Documents and Settings\Tim Medhurst>net send /?
The syntax of this command is:

NET SEND
{name | * | /DOMAIN[:name] | /USERS} message

Messages will automatically popup on the target machine(s) without any special software started (like winpopup used to be...)

Cheers,
Tim.

by lbarcena

Thanks. I was just wondering why Microsoft would replace a more user-friendly GUI winpopup with a less user-friendly DOS-based "net send" when upgrading to a "better" operating system.

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