Could anybody tell me how to hide a DOS Window when a DOS batch file is
executed by using shell in Visual Basic ?

Thanks. Have a nice holiday.

Meng Xu

I remember using a PIF file to hide a DOS window. But it was a long time
ago so I don't know any details.

hth
Dieter

Hello

I wanted to do this for a shortcut on my desktop to clear the
documents menu.  Here's how it's done.

Create a shortcut to the batch file.
Select the shortcut
Press ALT+ENTER
Select all the options you need.  It's almost exatly like PIF Editor
in Win 3.x

Enjoy  :)

Peter Dey
Nemesis

You can clear the documents menu with a call to SHAddToRecentDocs().

But that means that you gotta write a VB program to do the job.  After
compiling, it would be at least 200k.  A batch file would do the job
in maybe 20b!!

Peter Dey
Nemesis

http://www.cheaters-dungeon.home.ml.org/

Look at SHELL help!!!

If you do that, you would have to create a VB program, then compile
it, making it much bigget than a 3k batch file + a 3k pif file!

Peter
Nemesis

http://cheaters-dungeon.home.ml.org/

Call Shell(path and executable go here, 6)

The 6 in that code has VB run the window minimized leaving the focus on the
calling app. If you want the window containing the batch file to be minimized
and also have focus, replace the 6 with a 0

Hope this helps.

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