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tim6389 · Professional Member Joined: 01 Aug 2002 Posts: 790

hello all

I have been trying to find a way to hide a program so its not in the task manger...is there a way to do this on xp? i know there is a dll that works on 98 but i'am trying to make exe as small as i can... cuase i have to uses a bitmap file which is huge Sad

so i'am trying to cut back on dll's

thanks

FreezingFire · **Admin Team** Joined: 23 Jun 2002 Posts: 3508

NT security is really strict, so there's not much of a way to do this. Even
making your program a service will not hide it, you would have to make
a system driver, which is not possible to do without an enormous amount
of work.

tim6389 · Professional Member Joined: 01 Aug 2002 Posts: 790

if i make it a "service" at least it won't be under task...how do i make a vds program a service?

thanks

Skit3000 · Posted: Tue Apr 13, 2004 7:09 pm Post subject:

tim6389 · Professional Member Joined: 01 Aug 2002 Posts: 790

i thought on xp you have to click on the tab called services to see what service are running....when you do a a crtl alt del it don't open the services tab unless you click on it....if this is the case then that is what i want to do....

FreezingFire · **Admin Team** Joined: 23 Jun 2002 Posts: 3508

Nope, this is what the Win 2000 and XP task manager look like - but ignore
the red, it's because I'm linking the picture from www.sun.com

tim6389 · Professional Member Joined: 01 Aug 2002 Posts: 790

i don't see the picture Sad

FreezingFire · **Admin Team** Joined: 23 Jun 2002 Posts: 3508

OK...

Try this:
http://docs.sun.com/source/816-7146-10/images/start-stop-task-mgr.gif

tim6389 · Professional Member Joined: 01 Aug 2002 Posts: 790

still no go Sad

FreezingFire · **Admin Team** Joined: 23 Jun 2002 Posts: 3508

What happens when you try to view it? Is is not found, does the server
not respond, etc.? Confused

It works fine for me. Confused

tim6389 · Professional Member Joined: 01 Aug 2002 Posts: 790

sorry i get this

FreezingFire · **Admin Team** Joined: 23 Jun 2002 Posts: 3508

OK, well try getting a different image... try images.google.com:

http://images.google.com/images?q=winnt+task+manager

tim6389 · Professional Member Joined: 01 Aug 2002 Posts: 790

hummm kk i found one on that site....

question tho won't the service type exe be listed in processes instead of application?

thanks

vtol · Posted: Wed Apr 14, 2004 3:20 am Post subject:

hmm,

I noticed 16bit things that run in DOS appear as CMD.EXE(WinXP) and command.com (win98)

interesting ...

tim6389 · Professional Member Joined: 01 Aug 2002 Posts: 790

here is some info how to hide program from the task however this info is for a diff programing laguage..but maybe we can firgure something out