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    Problem closing a bat file? Hide it instead

    We have this Citrix published application that we needed to run a bat file, that in turn runs a vbs script, that updates the user profile.

    So like the bat file would not go away. So then I wrote a vb.net app that calls the bat file, waits a couple of seconds, closes the bat file and closes itself. It did not work. Why, something silly with the components of the .net framework over a published application. We received error messages....

    System.Security.Permissions.EnvironmentalPermission, mscorlib, and bunch of other silly messages like this.

    So, I took the law into my own hands, and resorted back to one of the best programming languages in the world. C++.

    Below is the source code for an app that can help you launch a hidden bat file.


    Code:
    #include <iostream>
    #include <conio.h>
    #include <windows.h>
    #include <fstream>
    #include <string>
    
    #define n '\n'
    
    using namespace std;
    
    int main()
    {
    
    ifstream myifstream;
    myifstream.open("BatFileConfig.txt");
    
    if(!myifstream)
    {
    cout << "There was a problem trying to open the BatFileConfig.txt" << n;
    getch();
    }
    
    string pathtofileSTR;
    int timerpauseSTR;
    
    myifstream >> pathtofileSTR >> timerpauseSTR;
    
    myifstream.close();
    
    SHELLEXECUTEINFO ShExecInfo;
    ShExecInfo.lpFile = pathtofileSTR.c_str();
    ShExecInfo.nShow = SW_HIDE;
    ShExecInfo.cbSize = sizeof(SHELLEXECUTEINFO);
    ShExecInfo.fMask = NULL;
    ShExecInfo.hwnd = NULL;
    ShExecInfo.lpVerb = NULL;
    ShExecInfo.lpParameters = NULL;
    ShExecInfo.lpDirectory = NULL;
    ShExecInfo.hInstApp = NULL;
    
    ShellExecuteEx(&ShExecInfo);
    
    Sleep(timerpauseSTR*1000);
    
    return 0;
    }
    Here is the txt configuration file (BatFileConfig.txt). The 3 is the number of seconds it will wait before it closes the bat file and then itself.

    Code:
    mybat.bat
    3
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    Re: Problem closing a bat file? Hide it instead

    it is very tough to understand. You should use comments in the source code so that it make easy to understand your source code.

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