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    TooLeeDiN
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    How i can hide my program process from process viewer in task manager. Thank for your help. TooLeeDiN

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      How i can hide my program process from process viewer in task manager. Thank for your help. TooLeeDiN

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      Christian Graus
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      You can't.

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        How i can hide my program process from process viewer in task manager. Thank for your help. TooLeeDiN

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        Colin Angus Mackay
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        Why would you want to do this? The only reasons I can think of would not be legitimate reasons.


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          How i can hide my program process from process viewer in task manager. Thank for your help. TooLeeDiN

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          It isn't possible.. Microsoft denied this function

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            It isn't possible.. Microsoft denied this function

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            b43r_3oo3 wrote:

            Microsoft denied this function

            Really?! Was the function ever available? I would doubt it.


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              b43r_3oo3 wrote:

              Microsoft denied this function

              Really?! Was the function ever available? I would doubt it.


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              i think in win 95 or 98 but i'm not sure

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                How i can hide my program process from process viewer in task manager. Thank for your help. TooLeeDiN

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                Prakash Pankaj
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                ya OS doesnt allow u to hide ur deamon fron process viewer...... but u:laugh:can still confuse the viewer by renaming the process by name like System svchost ect which r identical to OS services

                ----------------------------------------- I'll not leave my root login unattended -------------- Prakash Pankaj --------------

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                  How i can hide my program process from process viewer in task manager. Thank for your help. TooLeeDiN

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                  Yona Low
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                  If it runs; It can be cracked! That's a phrase i saw in a article about protecting software from crackers, and I'll use it here. (Besides if it's not possible, how is the anti virus software doing it?) Some time ago i developed a administrative application, and i wanted to implement a feature that would allow the boss to hide the process from the end users 'Task Manager' so they wouldn't kill it. After some research, i learned that this was only possible with low level Windows API's, something I'm not that comfortable with. There is basically two main idea's behind this, 1) hiding the process just from task manager, this requires hooking the massages that pass from Task Manager to Windows, then modify the result to exclude your process. 2) install a low level windows driver that monitors the internal windows process list and removes your program's entry. Needless to say, method 2 is much more effective then method 1 but less stable, and knowledge of C programming is required to develop such a driver. I hope thats enough info to give you a head's up for what to search for, and i hope your intentions are good ones. Don't ask me for my results or code, I think if someone really needs to develop such an application he should know a lower level of programming, or be ready to break his head while searching for someone else's code.

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                    How i can hide my program process from process viewer in task manager. Thank for your help. TooLeeDiN

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                    My purpose of process hiding is, in my company have some computer that have time period for using so i develop software(VB.NET 2005) for automatic shutdown computer if it has been turn on befor xx:xx A.M. or after xx:xx P.M. and i need to hide this software process from process viewer. But if it can't perhaps i need to hide task manager from end-user. :-DThank for all suggestion. TooLeeDiN

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