How to Disable Pop-up Dialog Boxes in Windows NT
Article ID: 148991
Article Last Modified on 11/1/2006
APPLIES TO
- Microsoft Windows NT Workstation 3.5
- Microsoft Windows NT Workstation 3.51
- Microsoft Windows NT Server 3.5
- Microsoft Windows NT Server 3.51
This article was previously published under 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:
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:
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: 122160
TITLE: Disabling Printing Notification Dialog Boxes in Windows NT 3.5x.
Additional query words: prodnt popup
Keywords: KB148991