Is there a way to do this?

**freestyler** · 09-18-2002, 03:28 PM

I want to have a program ran completely SILENT on a Win98 machine, doesn't put anything in the taskbar or anything. It's a simple bat script, but I also want it to run at different times a day but don't want it seen in the scheduled tasks folder.

Is that possible?

**ShinkunoNamida** · 09-18-2002, 03:35 PM

maybe if you make an active desktop with a timer that will autoexecute at a certain interval

I don't know if that'll work, it's just an idea

**smashr2k** · 09-18-2002, 06:31 PM

there is a way to run it as a service - not sure how though

**PoBoy** · 09-18-2002, 06:55 PM

Its called a "virus"

But yeah, make it a service messing around with the registry.

http://www.winplanet.com/winplanet/tutorials/885/1/

That will tell you how to make it a service...but I am not sure how to make it run durring different times of the day.

**MP3DUB** · 09-18-2002, 08:13 PM

i found it while i was big on genoming through the hardfolding.com site, it being a app called hide window or something to that effect that would hide a window named x.

**freestyler** · 09-18-2002, 10:07 PM

See at work we can't have ANY mp3s or movies on our machines due to it being a University, so I have a recursive file delention utility but people are deleting the scheduled task, so I have to make it 100% hidden.

I'll look into the service idea, I was thinking about that!

**MP3DUB** · 09-19-2002, 01:51 AM

and really, its rather easy to force a app to run as a service. its the matter of whether it will run properly is the question. just add a registry entry in the the hkey_localmachine key for runservices for what ever app you're trying to run.

**freestyler** · 09-19-2002, 01:54 AM

i'll give that a try at work tomorrow...thanks!

**Z00L** · 09-19-2002, 05:56 AM

Hi there
Look in the following site:
http://www.cspltd.ndirect.co.uk/desktop/desktop.htm

There's an APP called Window Hide....among other goodies, see if it helps you.

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**Aaron Cake** · 09-19-2002, 10:14 AM

How about a policy that says if they mess with their machines they'll be fired? Seemed to work for several of our customers...

A service is a good idea, but if you want to get really sneaky, just write a DOS program and put it in autoexec.bat.

Or make it part of a login script.

Or make an INF file for some fake hardware device, and write your program as a VXD, then install it via Device Manager. It will be built into VMM32.VXD, which will be nearly impossible to remove.

Do you have any custom apps for your business that they have to use? Edit the source and include your utility in there.

Make up some nice company screen savers (it's just a standard EXE renamed to SCR) that do it in the background.

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