Focus msgbox in vbscript

Hi!

I use a vbscript to shut down Internet Explorer and uninstall old java versions before we install the new java version. I use a msgbox in a vbscript to inform the user to shut down IE and then press "ok" in the dialogue box.
The problem is that sometimes the window isnt in focus. That way the end user misses the little yellow window in the taskbar and the script never continues (I dont want to force shutdown of Internet Explorer without the user giving approval).
Is there a way to force the vbscript msgbox window to pop up in front of ever other window all the time? The script will run on Windows XP X86 and Windows 7 X64 OS:es.

Thanks in advance!

Cheers
Agathorn

 

vbSystemModal should do the trick

Code:

Select Case MsgBox("Do you want to ...?", vbYesNo Or vbQuestion Or vbSystemModal, "Shut down IE")
  Case vbYes
    WScript.Echo "Yes was clicked."

  Case vbNo
    WScript.Echo "No was clicked."

End Select

For additional information see MsgBox Function.

Regards
GermanOne

 

Thanks! It seems to work when I run the script "manually". The problem I saw before just happened sometimes when run from SCCM.
The messagebox code now looks like this:

if counter < 1 then msgbox strMsg, 4096, "IT-Department"
I used 4096 which is the sum of 0 + 4096 (OK-button + vbSystemModal).

We will now try it distributed and see if it makes a difference.

 

There are more options, undocumented for VBScript though.
I assume that the MsgBox function calls the MessageBox WinAPI internally since I tried some of those options with VBScript (e.g. MB_TOPMOST) successfully.

Give that a shot:

Code:

MsgBox strMsg, &h51000, "IT-Department"

... (MB_SYSTEMMODAL | MB_SETFOREGROUND | MB_TOPMOST) could be useful.

Regards
GermanOne