Can't receive messages (net send, win popup) from other computers. HELP!More information on your system please. Any information you could give us on your network would also be helpful.

FlameWith XP SP2, the WinPopUp or Messenger service is disabled by default because it's such a high security risk.Winpopup a security risk? I hadn't heard that. Utterly useless, yes...The only purpose I've seen for Net Send is to ANNOY people on the same network. I mean, once I was in CAD, and the ex-Marine TEACHER (who you DON'T tick off) was showing me how to work in the program, and I got flooded with about 9-10 popups that said NOTHING useful. Annoyed, I responded with a popup that read, "Click OK or shut down if you're gay". The popups stopped.

A bit more on-topic, if you have XP Pro you can set up Net Send, but I actually tried to set up a network with a couple of XP Home PCs and I couldn't do it. I Googled and got few answers. Windows 2K I know works; my CAD computers use that OS. I don't recall if it works in 9x or not, but I doubt it. I won't bother checking on ME.XPs Messenger (WinPopUp) service has been exploited almost since XP hit the shelves.Hang on - winpopup (messages over NETBIOS) isn't the same as the messenger service? Is it? :-?If you want to turn on messenger and recieve Net Sends (not advisable) you have to go into Computer Management (Right click My Computer and go to Manage) and then into Services and locate Messenger from the list and enable it. Same goes for disabling it. Again, not advisable. If the purpose of using it is to test a computers connection from another computer, just use the ping command. Quote

Hang on - winpopup (messages over NETBIOS) isn't the same as the messenger service? Is it? :-?