How to hide winaudit window?

[Red Squirrel]

Anyone familiar with winaudit, and know how to hide the window that comes up?

I tried psexec and it still shows it! We want to run it in the background and we know if users see it they will freak and call the help desk.

 

[MrChad]

CMDOW lets you run command line executables in a hidden window.

 

[Red Squirrel]

That's a neat app. Though for some reason the winaudit window seems to be ignored by that app.

Another thing I was thinking of, is there an app out there that will let me step through a exe and see all the assembly instructions? Then how hard would it be to modify it and recompile? I could try to find where the window gets shown and just play around with that. I don't really know assembly that well though.

 

[theevilsharpie]

Does it need to run in the context of the logged-on user? If not, you can run the application as another user, and unless you specifically grant it the ability to interact with the desktop, it will be invisible to the user.

 

[Red Squirrel]

Does it need to run in the context of the logged-on user? If not, you can run the application as another user, and unless you specifically grant it the ability to interact with the desktop, it will be invisible to the user.

By default we run it as admin since it needs to be able to access all the system, but still shows. Think it's like doing an interactive runas.

 

[MrChad]

That's a neat app. Though for some reason the winaudit window seems to be ignored by that app.

Are you using the GUI window or command line options?

 

[Red Squirrel]

Are you using the GUI window or command line options?

Command line options. We actually dump it to a MSSQL db if it matters.

 

[theevilsharpie]

If the program doesn't require any sort of interactive use, you can run it as a service.

 

[Red Squirrel]

If the program doesn't require any sort of interactive use, you can run it as a service.

Doesn't an app need to be coded specificly to run as a service? If not, how would I go about doing this? That may work. Hopefully it still does not pop up.

 

[GaryJohnson]

Doesn't an app need to be coded specificly to run as a service? If not, how would I go about doing this? That may work. Hopefully it still does not pop up.

You can use sc.exe to create a user defined service. The command is:

sc.exe create "Service Name" binPath= "C:\Your Program.exe"

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/251192