rocco, first thing that comes to mind is that win9x does not support net send (which is what I think the sendmessage uses)...
or alerter service or whatever.
can't recall cleanly as I don't have any of those, but if you search on the bb about sendmessage, say since last year you probably will find some answers.
other way is to wait for others to reply with more specific answers...
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