Vb6 :|

[Ikerous]

I tried to figure out what forum to post this in, but... i got confused. So i'm posting it here.

Does anyone know vb6 that can answer a question? (Yea, i know, its a newb language, i hate it anywayz, stfoo)

I wanna use vb to run other exe files on my computer. Obviously i'd normally use the shell command to run them but i want to be able to do it without explorer.exe running and when i use the shell command w/o explorer open, it obviously opens explorer and then the program. Does anyone know a code that would run exe files w/o explorer open?

Typing is hard.

 

[Glirk Dient]

Malicious code is bad!

Use google...

 

[Ikerous]

Malicious code is bad!

Use google...

I tried google and it isn't malicious :|

(How would i use that maliciously though...?)

 

[OvA]

I just got this book. C++ > VisualNooBish6

 

[ComradeBadger]

Try hunting through some shell replacment binaries

ALl I can offer as help ;(

 

[Ikerous]

I just got this book. C++ > VisualNooBish6

Yea, i know :| I'd much rather be using that than this. However, i've yet to get C++ or learn the basics (Although ill end up learning it next year for my major) and i know vb6 from a few years ago. And i wanted to make this. I just cant figure this one last part out and i made the rest of the program already

Try hunting through some shell replacment binaries

ALl I can offer as help ;(

If i had any idea what that was, i'd try it ::Googles!::
Thanks

::Gets scared by the google results and comes back::

 

[Anthraxxx]

www.bloodshed.net for a free c++ compiler

 

[xombine]

Wait...you want to run the programs you've made on other computers?

 

[ComradeBadger]

Basically things like bblean that run instead of explorer, and don't run it unless it's called.

But hang on, do you just want to stop explorer running?

Edit it out in boot.ini and replace it with the program of your choice, and it should execute the commands without calling explorer.

Tis an old trick I use for fixing PCs when explorer itself is borked (theres a leftover shell from Win 3.1 days that's pretty much indestructible) and through that you can do pretty much whatever you want

 

[Ikerous]

Basically things like bblean that run instead of explorer, and don't run it unless it's called.

But hang on, do you just want to stop explorer running?

Edit it out in boot.ini and replace it with the program of your choice, and it should execute the commands without calling explorer.

Tis an old trick I use for fixing PCs when explorer itself is borked (theres a leftover shell from Win 3.1 days that's pretty much indestructible) and through that you can do pretty much whatever you want

:O ::TRies::

 

[xombine]

Ah ok, nvm then thats out of my league.

 

[Glirk Dient]

He is talking about visual basic and not visual C++...there is a difference.

Anyways being able to run .exe's without going through explorer can be used maiciously...

 

[ComradeBadger]

:O ::TRies::

I'm sorry but I can't remember the name of the old old shell..

I'll have a think

Just remember how to fix it

 

[Ikerous]

After having restarted several times, i've concluded that i have no idea wtf im doing

What exactly should i put in boot.ini to get this to work? Nothing i tried did anything :/

 

[ComradeBadger]

Right, change

shell=explorer.exe to your program, save and exit, and boot

 

[Ikerous]

Wow, that did the trick perfectly :O

::Worship::

 

[ComradeBadger]

Haha

No worries mate

Shell/explorer.exe repair/disable was my speciality when I worked at a computer repair shop

 

[hungryduck]

if you want to control something with VB, use a COM object...but those might only be in .NET....not sure....