Top 15 Batch MessageBox Alternative and Similar Softwares | Dec 2024

This is a tiny hack to display message boxes from Windows batch files and command line programs. There are many like it but the developer didn't find any that was open source, non-copyleft and had no external dependencies (.NET Framework, GTK+, etc.). It works on Windows NT 4.0 through Windows XP through Windows 10.

1. MessagePop

MessagePop MessagePop is a simple application designed to help you convey a message to the computer user. The program allows you to specify the message text and the other parameters from the command line.You can create personalized message windows by entering text for the title, message and button in the command......

2. Zenity

Zenity Zenity is a tool that allows you to display GTK dialog boxes in commandline and shell scripts.......

3. dialog

dialog display dialog boxes from shell scripts. Curses based. Works in console mode.......

4. vijazedan Timer

vijazedan Timer This is a simple app that creates a timer, and when time finishes, a sound is played. It has two modes, GUI mode for user interface and terminal/console mode to execute and use it from a terminal emulator/command prompt.Icons: icons8.com......

5. gxmessage

gxmessage Sorry, we have added any description on gxmessage......

6. Gtkdialog

Gtkdialog Gtkdialog is a small utility for fast and easy GUI building. It can be used to create dialog boxes for almost any interpreted and compiled programs which is a very attractive feature since the developer does not have to learn various GUI languages for the miscellaneous programming languages.......

7. WuInstall

WuInstall Updating Windows systems is one of the routine tasks of an administrator, usually done automatically with or without WSUS. The problem with it is, as we all know, that users are bothered by the time-consuming process of requesting available updates and reboots - not only at Microsoft Patch Day. That......

8. KDialog

KDialog Show KDE dialog boxes from shell scripts......

9. 9menu

9menu create a menu to run commands......

10. whiptail

whiptail display dialog boxes from shell scripts......

11. xdialog

xdialog Xdialog is designed to be a drop in replacement for the "dialog" or "cdialog" programs. It converts any terminal based program into a program with an X-windows interface. The dialogs are easier to see and use while adding even more functionalities (e.g. with the treeview, the file selector, the edit......

12. PieTTY

PieTTY PieTTY is a free SSH client based on PuTTY and dedicated to multilingual (especially CJK) environments, accessibility, and simpler user interface. "Glass Window Mode" : Alpha-blending / HW-accelerated transparency & drop-shadow. Drag'n'drop scp [scp only in stable version]......

13. WakeupOnStandBy

WakeupOnStandBy Have you ever thought about how much energy your computers use up at night or when they're not in use? Have you ever wondered if it's possible to wake up your system from a sleep mode (or hibernation) using a resident program and not waste all that energy?The answer is......

14. wakemeonlan

wakemeonlan Collect active network systems, like a network ascanner, in the local network and send WOL packets to wake up them using their MAC address.......

15. XMLStarlet

XMLStarlet XMLStarlet is a set of command line utilities (tools) which can be used to transform, query, validate, and edit XML documents and files using simple set of shell commands in similar way it is done for plain text files using UNIX grep, sed, awk, diff, patch, join, etc commands.......