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MSG.EXE In Vista

Posted by on Oct 8, 2007 | 12 Comments

There are a couple of ways that you can send messages across the network. You may be familiar with the Net Send command in Windows XP. With this command, you could send a message to a specific user logged onto the network or to a specific workstation. For example, to send a message to BillT simply open the command prompt on your computer and type: net send BillT Your computer will be taken offline at 2 pm.

If you’ve moved on to Vista and go looking for the Net Send command, you aren’t going to find it. This is because the command has been replaced with MSG.EXE. To launch the command: click on the Start button, type CMD in the search box and press Enter. The Command Prompt window will appear where you can send a message using MSG.EXE. For additional information about MSG.EXE, type msg /? at the command prompt and press Enter.

[tags]vista, vista tips, windows vista[/tags]

  • http://al99337charter.net Al

    When I try your suggestion:

    There are a couple of ways that you can send messages across the network. You may be familiar with the Net Send command in Windows XP. With this command, you could send a message to a specific user logged onto the network or to a specific workstation. For example, to send a message to BillT simply open the command prompt on your computer and type: net send BillT Your computer will be taken offline at 2 pm.
    ———–
    I get this:
    Microsoft Windows XP [Version 5.1.2600]
    (C) Copyright 1985-2001 Microsoft Corp.

    C:\Documents and Settings\Al>net send Al Dell this is a message
    ‘net’ is not recognized as an internal or external command,
    operable program or batch file.
    ————
    Explanation???
    Al

  • PaT

    Windows Vista:
    Run CMD
    type in MSG /? and press return for full functionality.
    to test this completely try typing
    MSG * hello
    into a command prompt and pressing enter. :)

    Windows XP:
    from a command prompt type
    Net Send * Hello
    and press return.

    Take note how the command is faster – shorter in vista but produces the same result.

    if you have a program that uses the NET SEND command but want to use it in vista you could always creat a NET SEND.BAT and link it to MSG.exe.

  • Pasha

    i use windows vista, but the problem still appear..
    i can’t use the command /MSG in my command prompt, the command wasn’t recognized as neither internal or external command.
    Is there some problem occured in my vista? Any solution or suggestion?

  • Sp

    Is it possible to send messages from Vista with the msg command to an XP system?

  • Ramin

    Hi
    please don’t leave me loving messages !!!!!!!!!!
    I just wanna know how I can send message through a network (including a variant range of windows like windows 2000 professional, windows XP, Windows Server 2003, Vista, blah blah blah) from one pc to another by MSG command (NOT by using damned third party applications)…
    thank you in advance.
    Ramin

  • Bob Almond

    The reason you get the error message when you try to use msg.exe is that Vista Home editions don’t include msg. It’s only found on the Business versions. So neither net send nor msg are available to those of us with Home Premium.

  • MAK9123

    hi how do you get it to send across network all it does on mine is sends it to myself
    what shall i do?????

  • carlos

    I have 2 PC’s and a notbook, in 2 vista in 1 XP, when I send a msg to the same computer it send it and apears on the screen (from pc1 to pc1), but when I try to send it to another computer(pc1 to pc2, pc1 to pc3, pc3 to pc1, etc etc..), it just tells me “error 5 when trying to get session names” (this apears to me in spanish). and I use the syntax
    msg /server:”pc name” “user” “Text”
    all the pc are in the same workgroup

    how do I can get to send a msg from 1 computer to another in my network, I have a router and in there doesn’t seem to be any option that blocks the trafic.

    what could I be doing wrong.

    thanks

  • http://donthave1 Darren

    i need help im runing vista home premium i wanted to know is there any way i can add net send or msg back to cmd (msg isnt in vista premium) but i would like to use it for my college network and mainly for home if anyone knows how to do this plz measage me at evilcaboose@live.co.uk thanks

  • john

    i think that if you use net send instead it might resolve your problem.

  • WinniePat

    Use a third party LAN messenger maybe a good choice
    Check out the comparison between net send command line and LAN messenger.
    http://www.bigantsoft.com/net_send.html

  • john

    Hi,

    I have a LAN between a laptop (Vista home – wireless) and a desktop (XP).

    I turned on the messenger service in the XP- Desktop (though services.msc) and now am able to send a message from Vista-> XP using net send gui.

    Unfortunately I am unable to do the opposite (ie XP -> Vista).

    Any help would be much appreciated .. ??

    Regards

    J