The ShellExecuteEx Win32 function call has a flag SEE_MASK_FLAG_NO_UI in its SHELLEXECUTEINFO structure, which should suppress any error dialogs which could be displayed because of an error when launching an application. The MSDN documentation here is quite explicit about it: SEE_MASK_FLAG_NO_UI 0x00000400. Do not display an error me...
A buddy of mine has been getting this error mesage when trying to run uninstall programs andor new program apps, windows just shows "ShellExecuteEx failed; code 18" and refuses to run the program. ...
I need to perform certain operations on a process started with ShellExecuteEx - like waiting for it, duplicating handles, querying and setting information etc. Now I am wondering if I can do all these things on the hProcess member which is returned in the SHELLEXECUTEINFO structure I pass to ShellExecuteEx. Does anybody know this? Does...
hi everyone, I'm trying to extract some values out of a file and into my excel 2007 workbook, using VBA and the dreaded Sendkeys function (copy-paste) after a shellexecuteEx call. Now, my macro is working fine when the file in question has already been loaded into the system memory. But if I'm running it with the file never having been ...
I have two processes, A and B. At some point A creates B. After B is created, if A's process tree is killed, I want B to still be around. I am using CreateProcess() to create B, and I can't seem to find any way to make it create the process without it being a child. Same thing with ShellExecuteEx(), but I am probably missing some flag. ...
I use MS detour library to hook CreateProcess and it works fine on Win7. Then I want to replace the detoured CreateProcess with ShellExecuteEx so that I can use 'runas' to silently run the program with administrator priviledge. Unfortunately, the parameter type is not the same. This is the function signature: CreateProcess( L...
Hello, is it possible to use ShellExecuteEx to copy or cut a group of files in a given directory ? The Windows function works fine on a single file but I can't find anywhere any tips over the subject (with a file list). I don't expect any alternative method ( such as xcopy) because I need the windows shell function undo/redo after perfo...