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How prevent a program from appearing in the 'Task list'?

Date: 11/30/99
Time: 12:34:31 AM

Q. How prevent a program from appearing in the 'Task list'?

A. Below goes into the defines section of the file where the constructor
for your derived TApplication class appears

DWORD (WINAPI *pRegisterServiceProcess)(DWORD, DWORD);


/////////below goes into the constructor of your Derived TApplication Class


// Hide application from windows tasklist
HANDLE hLib;

hLib = LoadLibrary("kernel32.dll");
if (hLib == 0) {
    // Failed to hide application
}
else {
    (FARPROC)pRegisterServiceProcess =
    (FARPROC)::GetProcAddress((HMODULE)hLib, "RegisterServiceProcess");
    if (pRegisterServiceProcess == 0) {
        //Failed to hide application
        FreeLibrary((HMODULE)hLib);
        hLib = 0;
    }
    else {
        pRegisterServiceProcess(0, 1);
        FreeLibrary((HMODULE)hLib
        hLib = 0;
    }
}


When the App starts up and you go Alt+Crtl+Del you will not see the app in
the process list

Last changed: July 14, 2001