Sending instant message using the dos prompt window

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HOW TO: Use Windows Messenger Instant Messaging
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"Spr99ace" wrote:

| Is there a way to send a message to a user on my network using the dos prompt
| so that message instanly pops up on their screen rather than sending an email?

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What you want to do requires the messenger service to be enabled. It is now
off by default with SP2. It is called the Net Send command and is used
within the command prompt window to pop up a message window on another
computer connected to your local network.

Hope this helps!

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"Spr99ace" <Spr99ace@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:607326C4-7854-4E78-A4E7-DFB2B696FEA5@microsoft.com...
> Is there a way to send a message to a user on my network using the dos
> prompt
> so that message instanly pops up on their screen rather than sending an
> email?

Yes there is....by using the NET SEND command....here is what you do:

First you must put systems in same network as you know.

step1 : start --> run --> (type) services.msc --> (press) ok

step2 : find for 'messenger' services (you can press 'm' as well to find it)

step3 : double click it ! change status form disabled to automatic if it is 'disabled'.

step4 : press start button & finish the process.

step5 : open your command prompt

step6 : type the following "net send ComputerNameHere some messages overhere"

step7 : Enter to send


Hope this helps.....please not the net send command does not work on vista.

Eric Ndung'u Murugami