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Looking at this again, I've found that it _does_ work as required with
DETACHED_PROCESS. There was another problem that was masking the effect.

Many thanks for everyone's help.

John Franklin

> > > I need to launch programatically an application that runs as a console
> > > application (it's a virus scan program that does some scanning and
then
> > > closes) but I don't want it to appear on the screen.
> > >
> > > I have tried setting the STARTUPINFO.wShowWindow in CreateProcess to
> > SW_HIDE
> > > (or SW_MINIMIZE) but this has no effect. The console window is still
> > > displayed.
> >
> > Try the DETACHED_PROCESS flag in dwCreationFlags in CreateProcess().
> >
> That does indeed run the process without a window. However, I don't seem
to
> be able to track when the process finishes using GetExitCodeProcess, where
> hProcess is that returned from CreateProcess in PROCESS_INFORMATION. It
> continues to loop with GetExitCodeProcess returning STILL_ACTIVE (which
I'm
> sure it can't be - the process only takes 20 seconds).
>
> Actually, it does sometimes work in the debugger if there's a breakpoint
> before the first read of GetExitCodeProcess (thus adding some delay). But
> that's no good in real life!
>
> Any other suggestions much appreciated.
>
> John Franklin
>
>