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daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Chris Meehan)
Wed Oct 16 10:55:44 2002

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Date: Wed, 16 Oct 2002 10:53:29 -0400
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From: Chris Meehan <cmeehan@MIT.EDU>
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Hi All,

Here is some more info from the Microsoft knowledge base.

How to Disable Pop-up Dialog Boxes in Windows NTPSS ID Number: Q148991

To send pop-up messages among Windows NT computers and network client 
computers, use the NET SEND command from the MS-DOS command prompt in 
Windows NT as follows: To send pop-up messages among Windows NT computers 
and network client computers, use the NET SEND command from the MS-DOS 
command prompt in Windows NT as follows:

net send <computer_name> "<message>"

The quotation marks are optional.

It is also possible to disable the pop-up dialog boxes. To do this, you 
must stop the Messenger service as follows:

In Control Panel, double-click Services.

Select the Messenger service.

Click Stop.

-or-

Run the following at the command prompt:
net stop messenger

WARNING:The Alerter service requires the Messenger service. The event log 
may report a "dependency service error". The Windows NT "System Guide," 
page 163, states that the Alerter and Messenger services must be started 
for a computer to generate a UPS alert.

For additional information, please see the following article in the 
Microsoft Knowledge Base:

ARTICLE ID: Q122160
TITLE: Disabling Printing Notification Dialog Boxes in Windows NT 3.5x.


Hope this helps.

Later
Chris



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