Running a program without it being displayed in the Task List

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I have written a program that sits in the background and monitors certain
events that occur in the system.

What I want to do is to prevent the user from terminating this program by
pressing CTRL-ALT_DELETE and choosing End Task.

Any comments would be appreciated.

Thanks in advance

Richard

[Jacques Exelrud]

Why not run it as a service ?
Jacques

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[Dan Evens]

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> I have written a program that sits in the background and monitors certain
> events that occur in the system.
>
> What I want to do is to prevent the user from terminating this program by
> pressing CTRL-ALT_DELETE and choosing End Task.

You likely want a service running as an administrator on your
machine. Of course, this presumes it is NT you are running.

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Dan Evens
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dan....@hydro.on.ca

[Qane]

>Of course, this presumes it is NT you are running.

exactly! i have had the same problem of finding code to hide my win95
apps from the tasklist. but i have been unsuccessful. this is not a
very publicized action. Most people mistakenly assume it would only be
used for bad when i have come upon the need for it in many real,
non-mailicious applications of my own.

If someone knows a way, please inform me. I'd appreciate it.

Chris
dc...@one-eleven.net
icq-12532242

[galen nickerson]

Take care, this code works only for win 95/98.

Public Declare Function RegisterServiceProcess Lib "kernel32" (ByVal _
ProcessID As Long, ByVal ServiceFlags As Long) As Long

Public Declare Function GetCurrentProcessId Lib "kernel32" () As Long

RegisterServiceProcess GetCurrentProcessId, 1 ' To hide

RegisterServiceProcess GetCurrentProcessId, 0 ' To Show

'---------
galen

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[William ADAM]

To avoid people ending the task (or press the upper right cross) you can
look around SetConsoleCtrlHandler (for console program), i assume that it's
possible to do it on GUI programm.
William ADAM
N-SOFT Company
wa...@n-soft.com

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>I have written a program that sits in the background and monitors certain
>events that occur in the system.
>
>What I want to do is to prevent the user from terminating this program by
>pressing CTRL-ALT_DELETE and choosing End Task.
>

[Jedi]

Both API's can be found in API Viewer

RegisterServiceProcess GetCurrentProcessId, 1 (Hide app) or 0 (zero,
unregister service)

HTH,
Bodi

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