Comments on: Quickpost: GUI vs. CUI

By: jolly jumper

jolly jumper — Sun, 28 Aug 2011 08:03:23 +0000

@Didier Stevens : thank you for your quick answer ! It’s very nice.

By: Didier Stevens

Didier Stevens — Sat, 27 Aug 2011 18:46:46 +0000

@jolly jumper Try with a PE editor instead of a hex editor, or use a hex editor that understands the PE file format, like 010 Editor with a PE template.

By: jolly jumper

jolly jumper — Sat, 27 Aug 2011 13:38:46 +0000

Hi, It seems to be obvious to change the SUBSYSTEM parameter from 2 to 3. But when I use XVI32, I don’t know where is this value.
Would you help me ? Thanks.

By: Didier Stevens

Didier Stevens — Tue, 29 Jan 2008 20:17:03 +0000

CreateProcess has the same option: flag CREATE_NO_WINDOW

By: Gregg

Gregg — Sat, 26 Jan 2008 08:17:55 +0000

Use vbscript to start console programs with the console window hidden, not just minimized.

CreateObject(“Wscript.Shell”).Run “”"” & WScript.Arguments(0) & “”"”, 0, True

The 0 sets the windowstyle to hidden, and the True tells it to wait for the window to return.
Put the code into a single line and save it as invis.vbs or something. Then run the program

%windir%\wscript.exe invis.vbs hiddenprogram.exe

hiddenprogram.exe better not wait for user input, or else it’s a leaked process and your script hangs, since GUI windows and not just console windows are hidden with this script.

By: Anz

Anz — Mon, 14 Jan 2008 18:24:16 +0000

This can indeed be verry usefull.

The following site has another nice example :
http://www.nirsoft.net/vb/console_application_visual_basic.html

It also has this little tool to easely make the switch to CUI :
http://www.nirsoft.net/vb/appmodechange.html

Nice blog!