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

Anonymous
2009-10-27T01:36:10+00:00

On XP, I used to communicate through my network for fun via netsend. 

I've googled, and apparently msg.exe replaced it in vista?

What about Win7?

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Anonymous
2009-10-28T00:53:42+00:00

Hi Shankopotamus,

Welcome to Microsoft Windows 7 Forums.

Windows 7 does not support msg.exe and net send commands to send messages over network.

Hope this information is helpful.

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  1. Anonymous
    2010-11-15T08:02:24+00:00

    Free LAN messenger can be an alternative

    http://www.bigantsoft.com

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  2. Anonymous
    2011-03-23T16:23:56+00:00

    True, vista and windows 7 cannot do "net send" and MSG only works to terminal servers or to local PCs.

    I wrote a script to do popups on both XP, VISTA, and WINDOWS 7.  Read the comments, because you must turn on powershell remote execution to get this to work.

    @echo off

    rem --- John Neumann, 23mar2011

    rem --- Windows7 msg.exe only works on your local PC or over network to

    rem --- Terminal Servers, but you cannot msg.exe remotely to a workstation.

    rem --- This script allows you to do like the old pre-vista "net send"

    rem --- to send to all PCs and Servers on your Active Directory domain.

    rem --- All PCs need powershell remote executions turned on and this

    rem --- could be seen as a security risk.

    rem --- Put this command into your logon script or group policy:  

    rem --- powershell enable-psremoting -force

    if '%1'=='' (

       echo Usage:  netsend.bat "Thing to say to all networked PCs & Servers"

       pause

       goto :EOF

    )

    rem --- %%~NXa gets rid of leading directory type \ characters,

    rem --- doing filename only (which is host name in this case)

    echo Your taskbar will temporarily have many minimized processes as I send messages.

    for  /f "usebackq" %%a in ( net view^|find "\\" ) do (

      echo msg to %%~NXa

      start /MIN /NORMAL "title msg to %%~NXa" powershell -command Invoke-Command -Computername %%~NXa {msg.exe * %1 %2 %3 %4 %5 %6 %7 %8 %9}

    )

    echo Your taskbar will temporarily have many minimized processes as I send messages.

    echo Each taskbar process will go away as messages complete.

    rem --- Done

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  3. Anonymous
    2011-05-18T04:59:08+00:00

    Professional has it as well, though I have never been in a situation where it would work.

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  4. Anonymous
    2011-08-17T15:25:00+00:00

    Hi,

    There is a script to make MSG behave like the old "NET SEND" in Windows 7. Just click on the links below to see details:

    http://pedrofln.blogspot.com/2011/08/net-messenger-script-for-windows-72008.html

    http://gallery.technet.microsoft.com/scriptcenter/A-net-messenger-script-for-810f8331

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