Large Annoying Non-Closeable Message Window

Usage and Config
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(imported topic written by rharmer91)

We are in the middle of locating some machines in our enterprise which are “lost.” They are in BigFix (checked in recently) and we can push things to them, but attempts to be “nice” have failed. Do any of you have suggestions for a large annoying non-closable message we can leave on the screen?

Thanks!

Rich

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(imported comment written by BenKus)

Hey Rich,

I have been thinking about this for years ever since one of our customers told me about a similar situation where they were hunting for computers (in this case it turned out that the computers were accidentally boarded up in a wall-cavity and were there for a couple years not doing anything)…

I was thinking you might write a vbscript or something that constantly puts up an annoying message box to call a number and then keep triggering the system speaker to beep every few seconds…

Ben

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(imported comment written by rharmer91)

This may be the answer… HTA files

http://www.microsoft.com/technet/scriptcenter/resources/qanda/jul06/hey0727.mspx

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(imported comment written by jessewk)

The most annoying Fxlet I ever wrote ran a batch script that triggered a system beep every 10 seconds. I set the action to reapply infinitely and followed the screams of pain to find the machine hosting the VM I was trying to locate.