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user1232138
user1232138

Reputation: 5541

Background process without a window

I need to prepare a program which runs in the background without a window or anything on the taskbar. You may compare this to the idea of a program which runs in the background and sends a signal every once in a while to keep the computer from sleeping. So here are the two ideas that I have on my mind

1) Creating a windows Service
2) Spawning a thread and exiting main

Please let me know how viable these are, particularly the second one, and what other possibilities do we have at our disposal.

Thanks in advance!!

Upvotes: 0

Views: 132

Answers (2)

qwm
qwm

Reputation: 1025

Just link your application for windows subsystem, not console

Upvotes: 2

Sean
Sean

Reputation: 62472

If you're looking to run a background process then go with the service approach. You'll be able to configure it to run even when nobody is logged in and it won't be intrusive to the user.

Upvotes: 2

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