How to hide the running popup cmd? I installed prometheus in my windows server. when I run it, it will popup the CMD window, but if I close it, the process will shut down.  is there any way to hide it? because that is really easy to close it by mistake.
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I'm looking for some way to run a batch file (.bat) without anything visible to the user (no window, no taskbar name, .etc..).  I don't want to use some program to do that, I'm looking for something cleaner. I've found  that uses VBScript, but I don't really like using VBS, either.
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When I login, I notice many process quickly start and terminate in task manager. But it happens very fast and I cannot save details about them (like process name, command line, CPU usage,..)  How can I collect stats about them so I can view them later
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On the CLI, sometimes a command I type takes a while to complete, and sometimes I know when that's about to happen. I'm a bit confused on "backgrounding" and such in Linux.  What is the most common (or user-friendly way) of telling the CLI that I don't want to wait, please give me back my prompt immediately. And if it could give me a progress bar or just busy-spinner, that would be great!
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How do I suspend a whole process (like the Process Explorer does when I click Suspend) in C#.  I'm starting the Process with Process.Start, and on a certain event, I want to suspend the process to be able to do some investigation on a "snapshot" of it.
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How do I find out what programs have been running on my computer even if they have been stopped to the extent that  can't show a thing?  I don't use my computer alone and am sometimes suspicious.
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I asked this same question on my original account that I no longer have access to. Yesterday when I turned on my computer a tab opened that is just a blue screen called      C\WINDOWS\System32\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0\powershell.exe    I got an answer saying to disable it from startup which did not work. I got a comment that said I probably installed something that wants to run a script at startup but it is unknown is it is malicious or not due to lack of information. I got another comment saying to run a program to tell me the process and copy and paste it so here is that:      "C:\Windows\SysWOW64\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0\powershell.exe"    I need to know if I should be worried about this happening every time I start my computer or if I will be fine and a solution to get rid of it would be very helpful.
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I'm working on re-purposing a Win10 laptop that has some security feature whereby all USB disks have to be approved and registered. I cannot remove that feature because I cannot see which app, service or setting is doing it. When I plug in a USB disk I get a pop-up saying the disk is not registered and cannot be used etc. The pop-up just sits there. I open Task Manager and it just has those zillion processes running. None of their names or resource usage patterns tips me off as the process that is displaying that pop-up. If I press alt-tab it just shows that pop-up as one of the running Apps but no indication of the name or location of any of the Apps. If there's visibly a Window opened up on your desktop is there a way to track down which App owns or opened that Window?  BTW it's not a browser or browser notification.  It has to be some kind of background security SW. A friend of mine was gifted her work laptop when she got laid off with the caveat that it was strictly as is. The thing is like Fort Knox and I've been unraveling all their security stuff. But I cannot find the origin or enforcer of this USB limitation.
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Using Ubuntu 12.04. is there any way to hide a running process ?  That process shouldn't' display in system monitor,top,htop . There is no problem to remember the process id (PID) so observation of the process can be done easily .but i want to hide the process completely . is there any way ?
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I get "Access denied" when trying to end a process on Windows 8.  From  on Stack Overflow, I've read:     The process may have a thread active in kernel mode that is not exiting. Best way to diagnose that is by using Task Manager, Details tab, right-click one of the column headers and choose "Select Columns". Tick "Handles". Look at the displayed value for the process. If you see a non-zero value then the process is very likely to have a handle opened and is waiting for a device driver to perform an I/O request. And that device driver is otherwise impervious to Windows asking it to cancel the request. Narrowing down the troublemaker is not that easy, you have to know more about exactly what kind of I/O requests your process performs. Follow up on this by asking a question about it at superuser.com*   So yeah... this problem has accured to the following programs:    Spotify Skype Battlefield 3   I've checked that I have full permission on everything. Even added "Everyone" with full access.   The other solution involved something with C++ which I have no clue about.  I have tried asking support on Microsoft sites but they only told me to go to Security and add everyone with full access.
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Is there a command line utility that kills all processes with a specific command line?  E.g. kill all processes named "java.exe" with a command line that contains "-jar selenium-server.jar". This is possible through process explorer.
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How do I launch Windows'  with certain path located, like "HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\VisualStudio\8.0", so I don't have to do the clicking?  What's the command line argument to do this? Or is there a place to find the explanation of RegEdit's switches?
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I am giving a presentation about Microsoft/Windows updates. To get the attention of the public I want this screen to pop-up in the middle of my presentation; maybe with a shortcut.    Does anyone have an idea on how to do this?
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How do you schedule a task in Windows XP to run when you shutdown windows. Such that I want to run a simple command line program I wrote in c# everytime I shut down windows. There doesn't seem to be an option in scheduled tasks to perform this task when my computer shuts down.
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I have written a Windows service that allows me to remotely run and stop applications. These applications are run using CreateProcess, and this works for me because most of them only perform backend processing. Recently, I need to run applications that present GUI to the current log in user. How do I code in C++ to allow my service to locate the currently active desktop and run the GUI on it?
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Hi and sorry for the ambiguous title...  I have a few programs that should run at startup which are 'properly' configured to do so via adding shortcuts to the startup directory:  C:\Users\[me]\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\Programs\Startup  However I have (at least) 4 programs which are also starting up, which I can't find where they are configured or how to disable them.  I have tried to find them in the above folder, as well as in the 'startup' section of 'msconfig'.  The programs include:   Skype (for which I have disabled 'start when windows starts' in its options) Thunderbird (for which I cannot find any option to run-at-startup) Task manager (as above) and some anonymous call to javaw (can't find any more details but it fails anyway)   The other strange thing is that it seems like these (at least skype and thunderbird) are running 'as administrator' ... i have deduced this because I am unable to use the file-drag-and-drop feature in both (which is a known problem when running 'as administrator').  If someone could guide me to where these extra programs are configured to run-at-startup I would be very greatful!  ps. my user account has the administrator role.  EDIT: preferrably without another 3rd party tool...
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I know there were some tricks with older versions of windows to accomplish this, but not sure on windows 7.  If I had a piece of software that executes a command with switches resulting in a cmd.exe window opening and closing quickly, how can I reconfigure the command prompt to NOT auto-close once the task is complete.  The trick here is that the command being executed is indeed a batch file, includes a pause statement at the end, but the way the software is trying to execute the command is failing. Since it closes so quickly, we don't know what error is being returned since it closes so quickly.
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Assuming Windows, is there a way I can detect from within a batch file if it was launched from an open command prompt or by double-clicking?  I'd like to add a pause to the end of the batch process if and only if it was double clicked, so that the window doesn't just disappear along with any useful output it may have produced.  Any clever ways to do this?  I'm looking for solutions I could rely on to work on a machine that was configured more or less with default settings.