I’ve always wanted to set up a little reminder to tell me to go home at the end of the day. Today I finally built one for myself using a pretty simple technique and without installing any additional software. Although, it does require turning on the Windows Messenger service, so if you aren’t behind a firewall I don’t recommend it.
1) turn on the Windows Messenger service (if not already running).
2) open notepad and enter the following text:
net send yourcomputername Go Home
and save it as gohome.bat somewhere convenient on your hard drive.
3) Set up a Scheduled Task to run the .bat file every weekday at 4:45pm.
Sweeeeeeet…..
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That is a great hack.
But from experience, its a bad idea to turn windows messenger.
Due to security reasons. I could be wrong. And if I am let me know.
Yes, you can as well send it to another computer on the network, or over the Internet that has the Messenger service running. With the XP Service Packs, this service was disabled.