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Microsoft Windows offers a simple method to send network messages to the other computers and users on the network - simple WinPopup Messages in Windows 95, Windows 98, Windows Me and Net Send command messages in Windows NT, Windows 2000, Windows XP, Windows 2003. Windows Vista, Windows 7 and Windows 8 have no net send command at all and you need additional software to receive or send net messages like our LanTalk NET.
If you need an more functional software than Winpopup to send messages over network, please take a look to LanTalk LAN messenger or Winpopup compatible LAN messenger LanTalk XP.
Winpopup is a Windows 95 Windows 98 and Windows Me network program that will allow you to send network messages from one computer to another in the same network. You do not need to have Internet connectivity to use this software, because this program has no relationship whatsoever to the Internet. It is a program that is located in your Windows operation system. If your machines are connected through network and your machines are set up for a peer-to-peer network, then you probably can use this program.
Please look at the article Winpopup at Startup to learn how to create shortcut for Winpopup.
Winpopup requires installation via the Control Panel ( if you have installed network, please skip the step 1 ), Add / Remove Programs on the tab: Windows Setup.
For continuous use, create a shortcut of WinPopup into your StartUp folder, learn how to create shortcut to Winpopup
To configure the behavior of WinPopup on receiving a new message, select from the menu: Messages the Options. There are three options in the WinPopup program. Go to Messages in the Menu bar of the WinPopup program, select Options, and click on all three boxes.
When you receive a message, the program will automatically open and make a sound to let you know you have received a message. To answer the message, click on the envelope and the name of the user/computer that sent you the message appears in the User or computer box. Write your message in the white box below the name where it says Message. Click on the OK button to send the message. To delete a message that has been sent to you, click on the wastebasket icon.
To send a new message click on the envelope. Make sure the User or Computer radio button is selected. Type in the name of the User or Computer. Type in your message in the box below. Then click on OK.
To send a new message to the whole workgroup, select the Workgroup radio button. Type in the name of the group, then write your message in the white box below and click on OK. It will go to everyone in that particular workgroup.
If you do not know the machine's name or the login name of the machine, your message will not go through. You need to look in your Network Neighborhood for the names of the computers you wish to contact. WinPopup will check, that the name is valid: that the defined user is currently logged on to the network or that the computer is existing and send the message.
If winpopup is running on the destination system, the message is displayed. If winpopup is NOT running, than the message is lost ( think about it like an announcement on a radio: if the radio is turned on and you are listening, you hear the message, if the radio is switched off, you miss the message ).
However : it does NOT guarantee that the message is received on the destination system, that winpopup is running on the destination computer.
If you need to be sure that message is received, please try LanTalk NET our advanced Winpopup replacement.
You can use Winpopup to send messages to systems running Windows 95, Windows 98, Windows Me and Windows NT, Windows 2000, Windows XP and Windows 2003. But you should be sure that recipient have some software to receive your message. It can be Winpopup, Messenger Service ( on the NT based systems ) or our Lan messenger LanTalk NET.
