msg.exe / netsend - anything availible on Windows 7?

I would suggest logmein hamachi:  https://secure.logmein.com/UK/products/hamachi/

its free and you can message individuals or the whole network. Plus you can use it for hosting servers without port forwarding if you need to...

Sorry to poo-poo the advice above that says

a, its ONLY on Professional, Enterprise and Ultimate - ITS NOT!  Its on HOME Premium as well.

b, You need a third party product only to run it - NOT TRUE.  I will demonstrate below.

c,  You need Powershell - NO.

I have it working perfectly without any of the above.

I am using Home Premium, and have a bat script that under XP said

NET SENT %username% Y: DRIVE NOT CONNECTED!

So, moving to Win7, I needed to replace this command with an equivalent.  Rather than follow various google posts that says a REGISTRY mod is required to enable to run (and only at an elevated prompt), or give up because apparently its not available at all (being Home edition), I simply searched for the msg.exe in the system, found its location and added the path.  There are 3 options:

OPTION A: Add the path prior to calling the new msg command.  So now the new line(s) are

path=%path%;C:\Windows\winsxs\amd64_microsoft-windows-t..commandlinetoolsmqq_31bf3856ad364e35_6.1.7600.16385_none_851e6308c5b62529

msg %Username% Y: DRIVE NOT CONNECTED!

OPTION B:  state the calling path of the executable (single line):

C:\Windows\winsxs\amd64_microsoft-windows-t..commandlinetoolsmqq_31bf3856ad364e35_6.1.7600.16385_none_851e6308c5b62529\msg %Username% Y: DRIVE NOT CONNECTED!

OPTION C: (my preferred):  add the path to the system environment variables (explained below), and then the new script command will simply be:

msg %Username% Y: DRIVE NOT CONNECTED!

Job done!  No registry change.. No elevated privileges. No powershell or script required.  No giving up.

So, to summarise:

Simply add the path to the command either:

a,  by terms of a previous path addition (when running a script) as above

b,  include the path into the command to point to it (when running a script) (ie, [path]\msg.exe [user] text)

c,  add the path above to the ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES so they are there always for when you want to run an impromptu msg at command prompt:

 right click 'COMPUTER' - Properties -Advanced System Settings - Advanced - Environment Variables - add the above location to the end of the SYSTEM 'PATH' variable (following a semicolon)

The beauty of this for me who dont like changing my system with registry etc as I dont know what hidden perils it may cause, is that .....it doesnt change my system and therefore I stay safe from hidden perils!  :-)

Pardon my sarcasm, but how can removing commands from the OS  for which someone is wanting support be "helpful".  All you have done is pointed out what they want to accomplish cannot be done.  That does not help.

I'm just curious, but is "Hope this information helpful." part of a signature?  If not, how is it helpful that MS has removed a function which generated hundreds of search results of people trying to figure out how to do it?