How to use the NET SEND command from Windows 7 to Windows XP?

windows-7 windows command-line netsend

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Solution 1

In Service pack 2 the Messenger service got disabled by default.

To enable it type services.msc in Run and find the messenger service and enable it.
You'll need to enable it on both computers

Solution 2

Sysinternals PSTools may be of some use for pranks such as these.

I once combined PSExec with a burp prank exe to very great effect, right up until the branch managing partner (law firm!) walked round the corner at a most inorportune moment! O_o

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studiohack

Updated on September 17, 2022

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studiohack almost 2 years

I want to use the NET SEND command to send a message from my machine to another in a local network. My machine is Windows 7 Home Premium, and I want to send a message to a Windows XP Home (SP2) machine. I know that NET SEND is no longer valid in Windows 7, so what can I use to communicate with Windows XP's NET SEND?
- Admin about 14 years
  
  I thought the Messenger service was disabled in Windows XP already as well.
- Admin about 14 years
  
  @Johannes Rossel: I read something about that in an article somewhere that after XP SP1 was installed, the messenger service was disabled...I thought about mentioning it, but...so there is no netsend in XP SP2 or SP3?
- Admin about 14 years
  
  I haven't used XP in years (luckily), but afair just the service was disabled by default. You could still send messages from that machine (while the functionality was removed from net as of Vista or so), even though you can't receive them anymore.
- Admin about 14 years
  
  so you can send them from an XP machine but not receive them (on XP)?
- Admin about 14 years
  
  Question was asked/answered a while ago: superuser.com/questions/38967/…
- Admin about 14 years
  
  @Joe Internet: I've already seen this question, and all it tells me is that Vista/7 do not support netsend, and MY question was about how I could overcome this, either with a hack or a third-party tool.
studiohack about 14 years

can i enable it?
Robert Whiffin about 14 years

Yea type "services.msc" in Run and find the messenger service and enable it.
studiohack about 14 years

that easy? wow ok. do I need to do it on the XP machine sending the netsend?
Robert Whiffin about 14 years

Yes. You need to enable it on both computers.
Naidim over 13 years

net start messenger, from command line, seeing as you'll be using it from that anyway.
user1686 over 13 years

sc config messenger start= demand && sc start messenger