Show custom message in "Your pc will reboot in x minutes"-screen

Question

_{Monday, August 21, 2017 11:44 AM}

Hi,

We have some users that always complain that the current messages we use not visible enough or complain that when certain things are performed that they have not received ample warning (Reboot after updates, etc). I know you can create your own forms with powershell or show prompts with cmd. But stated before, users complain that they don't see them, or click over them or what not.

My question was, if it is possible to set custom messages in the screen you get when your PC will reboot in x minutes.

Reason for it is, that you can't do anything until you close the message. This would mean that users can't complain anymore that they don't receive ample warning or that they missed the message as it stays on screen till the user actively clicks close (or in this specific case, the laptop reboots).

A similar thing I can think of is the forced reboot after updates through SCCM which then also keep an on screen message which can't be dismissed.

Anyone know if it's possible to put custom messages in them or not?

All replies (2)

_{Tuesday, August 22, 2017 10:35 AM ✅Answered | 1 vote}

Hi,

We could configure Windows Update time remained notification as the follows, but we could not configure other application remained reboot time notification.

Go to:

Computer Configuration\Administrative Templates\Windows Components\Windows Update

and select Configure auto-restart warning notifications schedule for updates.

The warning reminder can be configured by Reminder (hours) and the warning prior to an imminent auto-restart can be configured by Warning (mins).

For more information, please refer to “Control restart notifications” in Manage device restarts after updates.

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_{Monday, August 21, 2017 1:26 PM}

Have you tried **shutdown -i **command? It will display a dialogue where you could configure shutdown or restart and also add your own customized message.