Windows 7 Remote – How to Pop Up a Message or Run a Program on Remote Windows 7 Computer

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How can you pop up a message or run a program on remote computer so the currently logged on user can see it.

We have done this on WinXP, but these don't work with Win7.

at.exe \\computername time /interactive message.vbs

(time is hh:mm at least a minute in the future)

psexec.exe \\computername -I message.vbs

To test it you could replace message.vbs with Notepad.exe

Best Answer

Netsend messages have been removed from Windows 7.

One way I have found to do this without installing 3rd party software is to leverage the remote shutdown commands:

shutdown -m \\computername -r -f -c "MESSAGE" -t 120
shutdown -m \\computername -a

The first command pops a message up, and will begin the shutdown in 120 seconds, the second command will cancel the remote shutdown (-a).

Test this on something that does not matter first!