Winpopup (XP Pro)

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Does anyone know what happened to Winpopup? We used to use it in our household (much like that Zits cartoon episode recently published in Western Australia – I’m sure it’s pretty ancient in the US though).

Anyway, back to the point, does someone know where I can get a low resource consuming replacement? (We need it to be able to work when we are on and off the Internet)

Thanks in anticipation

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Winpopup was W98, yes? And then became the Messenger Service in W2K…..

What about: HOW TO: Use Windows Messenger Instant Messaging in Windows Messenger (Q307887)

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Leif, thanks for that link.
I used Winpopup in WinMe and Win95.

How do you used Messenger when you are off line?

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Aha – I see Messenger is a service in XP to send console messages to computers which is totally different to MSN Messengers – or instant messenger which is what the KB article is talking about

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I don’t believe there is any built-in nice, user-friendly messenger service any more.

Here’s a link to MJ’s suggestions – 3M Notes – the ‘Lite’ version is free.

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Thanks for the suggestion, MJ and the link, Leif. The Lite version doesn’t work over a network.

If anyone knows of a good free Winpopup replacement, please let me know.

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A search on Google for “winpopup replacement” brings up hundreds – but don’t forget you often get what you pay for .

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IMHO, the 3M program is well worth the cost, but a search for winpopup, post it notes or netsend at a site like downloads.com should bring up all kinds of programs. I’ll try to locate the name of the program we used before buying 3M’s, it wasn’t free but was less expensive.

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I’m now happily using RealPopup. See this post for details

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If you happen to be lucky enough to be running Exchange Server 2000 there is a version of Windows Messenger which runs with that. MS claims you can create an ‘enterprise class’ internal IM network with it. This link should lead you to all kinds of info: http://www.microsoft.com/Exchange/download…00/IMclient.asp%5B/url%5D

--Joe

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Sadly I don’t have Exchange server – but I’d love to be able to use Messenger over our home network.

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That’s too bad. I’m pretty sure you need some sort of user authentication mechanism to use Messenger – that would be .NET services or Exchange 2000 directory services. Take a look at http://www.nonags.com/nonags/%5B/url%5D the Communications | Chat – LAN section has some interesting, free programs.

--Joe

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Do you know what .NET services I’d need?

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Well I think the only thing you really need is a Passport/Hotmail account. You know MS is calling practically everything .NET. With Messenger all that really does is allows you to sign up for various alerts. I believe some vendors other than MS are beginning to jump on that badnwagon. You’d need to check the Messenger portion of the MS web site for more details.

--Joe

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and an internet connection – IM is not a good solution for lan chatter unless you have a full time connection.

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Yeah that’s true unless you have Exchange server 2000. I’m pretty sure that Exchange provides the authentication for the users. MS claims that it will provide a ‘secure, reliable way to host intranet chats’. We’re not running Exchange 2k yet so I can’t say one way or the other. I know from the prior posts that she does not have Exchange 2k. Just trying to be complete.

JP

--Joe

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since she doesn’t have exchange, being complete = confusing and misleading and could cause someone to believe they can do it without exchange.

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Hey Melissa, I just got this in a newsletter to which I subscribe. GUI Chat Program for Windows LANs – Are you tired of public chat programs that allow Internet intruders to break into your private home LAN? All you want to do is send instant messages to other people on your home or small office network. If this sounds like you, check out a cool program called NTHail. NTHail is a free LAN chat program that allows you to send messages to other computers on your network. It’s easy to install, there’s no particular setup requirements and it’s FREE! To get a copy head on over to:
http://www.winxpnews.com/rd/rd.cfm?id=020730TI-NTHail%5B/url%5D.

I don’t know how good or bad this program is. Just remembered this thread when I read it.

HTH, Joe

--Joe

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Melissa, Oops. Got this in the next newsletter I quoted last week.
GUI Chat Program for Windows LANs Follow Up

I had to get the asbestos suit out after last week’s newsletter! I reported on a cool tool called NTHail that allows you to chat with others on your network. When I first looked up the program, it was free, and I let all of you know it was free! The problem is the Web site decided to charge for the file AFTER the newsletter went out. Ouch! Mike Kanir was good enough to find another site that had the file. It’s FREE and all you have to provide is an email address and name (never give away your personal email address or name to a Web site). Get it here:
http://www.winxpnews.com/rd/rd.cfm?id=020806TI-NTHail

Good luck – HTH
Joe

--Joe

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We use 3M’s electronic post it notes to send messages to other computers. (There are other shareware post it notes that work the same way.)

We like them because not only do we send notes, but they stick around until we trash them. we can also set alarms on them, if we need reminders.

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It took ‘forever’, but i finally found the NetNotes program i used to use. http://www.jaruzel.com/netnote/%5B/url%5D
(I bought a license for 3M’s)

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