Turn new message alert pop-up on or off

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A Desktop Alert is a notification that appears on your desktop when you receive a new email message, a meeting request, or a task request. By default, Desktop Alerts are turned on.

The information displayed in a Desktop Alert varies depending on the item that you receive in your Inbox.

Email message
Displays the name of the sender, the subject, and the first two lines of the message. A Desktop Alert doesn’t display the contents of an encrypted or digitally signed message. To view the message, you must open it.

Meeting request
Displays the sender, subject, date, time, and location of the meeting.

Task request
Displays the sender, subject, and start date of the assigned task.

Watch a 1:54 minute video about pop-up alerts (notifications)

Turn alerts on or off

Tip: If you want to keep a Desktop Alert visible so that you can take more time to read it, rest the pointer over the alert before it fades from view.

Select File > Options > Mail.

Under Message arrival, select or clear the Display a Desktop Alert check box and then select OK.

Note: To suppress or enable other notifications such as sounds, mouse pointer changes, or displaying an envelope icon in the taskbar, check or clear the respective check boxes for those functions.

When Desktop Alerts don’t appear

Desktop Alert notifications don’t appear during the initial synchronization of an email account or when you request a manual Send/Receive.

Also, if you’re using message rules and a new message is moved out of the default account Inbox, you might not receive a Desktop Alert notification,.

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Hi Sherry, I am sorry, but the seller has installed a hacked version of Windows on that computer, you will have to contact them and get them to install a legit copy of Windows . . .

Windows 10 Enterprise is a volume licence version of Windows and not intended for general public use — sorry to be the bearer of bad tidings . . .

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Hi Sherry. I’m Greg, an installation specialist and 8 year Windows MVP, here to help you.

It’s strange that the seller would give you a command to extend free activation by 30 days, instead of providing a legal method to activate it which MUST be provided in order to resell Windows legally.

Enterprise is a business version that is only activated by an IT department with mass activation keys. It is never used by individuals even if the business sells the PC — they must reinstall it with a retail version or it is piracy.

The seller is engaging in piracy which is a crime and a theft. They need to provide you with a legal license or they should not have installed it with Windows installed.

What is the exact make and model of the PC so we can look up with version shipped with it originally? If it’s Windows 8 or 10 then it might have the Product Key embedded in the UEFI and BIOS chip on the motherboard which can be read by installing ProducKey app to look for an «OEM-BIOS» key (only). You can try that now because that key might be able to be used to reinstall Windows Home version if that’s what it had come with: http://www.nirsoft.net/utils/produkey-x64.zip

I hope this helps. Feel free to ask back any questions and let us know how it goes. I will keep working with you until it’s resolved.

Over 100,000 helped in forums for 11 years. I don’t quit for those who are polite and cooperative.

How can you create pop up messages in a batch script?

I need to know how to make popup messages in batch scripts without using VBScript or KiXtart or any other external scripting/programming language. I have zero clue about this. had no starting point even. I am aware of NET SEND but the Messenger service is disabled in my current environment.

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With regard to LittleBobbyTable’s answer — NET SEND does not work on Vista or Windows 7. It has been replaced by MSG.EXE

There is a crude solution that works on all versions of Windows — A crude popup message can be sent by STARTing a new cmd.exe window that closes once a key is pressed.

If you want your script to pause until the message box is dismissed, then you can add the /WAIT option.

You can take advantage of CSCRIPT.EXE or WSCRIPT.EXE (which have been present in every version of Windows since, I believe, Windows 95) like this:

You could also choose the more customizeable PopUp command. This example gives you a 10 second window to click OK, before timing out:

In their above context, both cscript and wscript will act the same. When called from a batch file, bot cscript and wscript will pause the batch file until they finish their script, then allow the file to continue.

When called manually from the command prompt, cscript will not return control to the command prompt until it is finished, while wscript will create a seprate thread for the execution of it’s script, returning control to the command prompt even before it’s script has finished.

Other methods discussed in this thread do not cause the execution of batch files to pause while waiting for the message to be clicked on. Your selection will be dictated by your needs.

How to stop the Outlook “A program is trying to access” pop-up messages

If you use Microsoft Outlook and installed at least an add-in, third-party component or any other mail-related software I bet you are familiar with either the following message:

A program is trying to access e-mail address information stored in Outlook. If this is unexpected, click Deny and verify your antivirus software is up-to-date.

A program is trying to send an e-mail message on your behalf. If this is unexpected, click Deny and verify your antivirus software is up-to-date.

or maybe this other one:

A program is trying to perform an action that may result in an e-mail message being sent on your behalf. If this is unexpected, click Deny and verify your antivirus software is up-to-date.

All these messages are generated by the Outlook E-mail Security settings (starting from Outlook 2000). This security update affects how other applications interact with Outlook by changing the default security zone settings from “Internet” to “restricted”. The popup will allow you to suppress the warning, but only for a small amount of time (usually 10 minutes).

If you want to permanently disable these popup messages you have basically two options: doing that on global basis – only if you’re using Microsoft Exchange Server to handle the mail process – or to that on each specific client.

To configure the security warning globally you can alter the default configuration settings as explained here (for Exchange 2010 and below) and here (for Exchange 2013 and above).

If you prefer to fix the issue on each specific client, you need to do is to check the client’s Outlook version and act accordingly.

Outlook 2013

If you can run Outlook with administrative rights, you can do it through the Outlook options panel:

• Right-click on the Outlook shortcut holding the SHIFT key and choose Run as administrator
• Go to File >Options >Trust Center >Programmatic Access
• Set the programmatic access to Never warn me about suspicious activity (not recommended)

IMPORTANT NOTE: If these option are greyed out, it usually means that you didn’t run Outlook with administrative rights.

As an alternative way, you can achieve the same result by altering your registry file in the following way:

• Navigate through HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE \ SOFTWARE \ Microsoft \ Office \ 15 . 0 \ Outlook \ Security (create the key if it doesn’t exist)
• Add the following DWORD item:
  • CheckAdminSettings , with a value of 1.
  • AdminSecurityMode , with a value of 3.
  • PromptSimpleMAPISend , with a value of 2.
  • PromptSimpleMAPINameResolve , with a value of 2.
  • PromptSimpleMAPIOpenMessage , with a value of 2.
  • PromptOOMCustomAction , with a value of 2.
  • PromptOOMSend , with a value of 2.
  • PromptOOMAddressBookAccess , with a value of 2.
  • PromptOOMAddressInformationAccess , with a value of 2.
  • PromptOOMMeetingTaskRequestResponse , with a value of 2.
• Navigate through HKEY_CURRENT_USER \ Software \ Policies \ Microsoft \ Office \ 15 . 0 \ outlook \ security (create the key if it doesn’t exist)
• Add the following DWORD items:
  • CheckAdminSettings , with a value of 1.
  • AdminSecurityMode , with a value of 3.
  • PromptSimpleMAPISend , with a value of 2.
  • PromptSimpleMAPINameResolve , with a value of 2.
  • PromptSimpleMAPIOpenMessage , with a value of 2.
  • PromptOOMCustomAction , with a value of 2.
  • PromptOOMSend , with a value of 2.
  • PromptOOMAddressBookAccess , with a value of 2.
  • PromptOOMAddressInformationAccess , with a value of 2.
  • PromptOOMMeetingTaskRequestResponse , with a value of 2.

For a complete listing of all these switch, with full explanation of their values, you can read the following Microsoft KB article.

Outlook 2010

Follow the same instruction for Outlook 2013: if you plan to alter the Registry settings, replace the 15.0 part of both keys with 14.0.

Outlook 2007

Follow the same instruction for Outlook 2013/2010 with the following differences:

• If you go for the Options menu, the path is slightly different: Tools >Trust Center >Programmatic Access
• If you plan to alter the Registry settings, replace the 15.0 part of both keys with 12.0

Show a popup/message box from a Windows batch file

Is there a way to display a message box from a batch file (similar to how xmessage can be used from bash-scripts in Linux)?

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I would make a very simple VBScript file and call it using CScript to parse the command line parameters.

Something like the following saved in MessageBox.vbs :

Which you would call like:

MsgBox reference if you are interested in going this route.

First of all, DOS has nothing to do with it, you probably want a Windows command line solution (again: no DOS, pure Windows, just not a Window, but a Console).

You can either use the VBScript method provided by boflynn or you can mis-use net send or msg . net send works only on older versions of windows:

This also depends on the Messenger service to run, though.

For newer versions (XP and onward, apparently):

It should be noted that a message box sent using msg.exe will only last for 60 seconds. This can however be overridden with the /time:xx switch.

Might display a little flash, but no temp files required. Should work all the way back to somewhere in the (IIRC) IE5 era.

Don’t forget to escape your parentheses if you’re using if :

This will pop-up another Command Prompt window:

If you are using Windows XP’s command.com, this will open a message box.

Opening a new cmd window isn’t quite what you were asking for, I gather. You could also use VBScript, and use this with your .bat file. You would open it from the bat file with this command:

What this does is change the directory command.com will search for files from, then on the next line:

Then you create a new Notepad document, type in

You would then save this as a .vbs file (by putting «.vbs» at the end of the filename), save as «All Files» in the drop down box below the file name (so it doesn’t save as .txt), then click Save!

3) Here’s parameterized .bat/jscript hybrid (should be saved as bat ). It again uses JavaScript despite the OP request but as it is a bat it can be called as a bat file without worries. It uses POPUP which allows a little bit more control than the more popular MSGBOX. It uses WSH, but not MSHTA like in the example above.

4) and one jscript.net/.bat hybrid (should be saved as .bat ) .This time it uses .NET and compiles a small .exe file that could be deleted:

5) and at the end one single call to powershell that creates a pop-up (can be called from command line or from batch if powershell is installed):

6) And the dbenham’s approach seen here

7) For a system tray notifications you can try this: