Make a VB Program run in the background?

[JBD2]

Hi Everybody,

Sorry If i'm a bit of a noob at this. I'm wondering how to make a VB Program run in the background...If anybody knows how or has some code that would be great. Thanks for the help!

JBD2

[Comatose]

you can make it run in the background by merely hiding the form. If you stick a timer on the form, then you can have it cycle to do something every so often. In the form load's procedure just add:

me.visible = false

[JBD2]

Awesome!!Thanks!

[JBD2]

Ok, Thanks for telling me that, and sorry these questions don't have anything to do with the topic but, what would I put in if I wanted my program to run when windows starts up? Thanks.

[Comatose]

Ok, Thanks for telling me that, and sorry these questions don't have anything to do with the topic but, what would I put in if I wanted my program to run when windows starts up? Thanks.

You can make your program edit the registry on form load.... and then call your EXE. It's a good idea to give the user this option in an option form, or msgbox, so they know you are going to do this (I hate when programs try to force startup on me...)

dim wsh
set wsh = createobject("WScript.Shell")
Wsh.RegWrite "HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run\MyProgName", "c:\path2yourprogram.exe"

Obviously You need to change 2 things in the last line... you need to change "MyProgName" to whatever the name of your application is.... and you need to change "c:\path2yourprogram.exe" to the path where your program is installed. That should have it load on startup.

[JBD2]

Thanks for the help.

[jayshah]

Hi,

Sorry this is off topic but but i am quite a newbie to this. can i shell a program behind the VB Program? or make the shelled program hidden?

Tx

Jay

[scrypt3r]

i do not wish to offend you or make any accusations
but it sounds as if you want the program to go undetected hmmmmm very suspicous

;D

[mandango5]

You can make your program edit the registry on form load.... and then call your EXE. It's a good idea to give the user this option in an option form, or msgbox, so they know you are going to do this (I hate when programs try to force startup on me...)

dim wsh
set wsh = createobject("WScript.Shell")
Wsh.RegWrite "HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run\MyProgName", "c:\path2yourprogram.exe"

Obviously You need to change 2 things in the last line... you need to change "MyProgName" to whatever the name of your application is.... and you need to change "c:\path2yourprogram.exe" to the path where your program is installed. That should have it load on startup.

how do you remove it from the start-up list. because i wrote a program to annoy my friends little brother and i tried the startup thing and now i have a very annoying program that runs every time my computer starts. its not a huge deal 2 just close tthe program every time but i would prefer to not have to do that.

[Nick Evan]

Go to start->run and type 'regedit'
Now find the folder in your registry:
HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run\
and remove the key that your program wrote here.

[Jx_Man]

nick already answer your question. go to registry and delete the current file there.
or you can use msconfig manager.
go to start->run and type 'msconfig'.
click on startup tab then enable the files on list.

[Christkdcdd]

You can make your program edit the registry on form load.... and then call your EXE. It's a good idea to give the user this option in an option form, or msgbox, so they know you are going to do this (I hate when programs try to force startup on me...)

dim wsh
set wsh = createobject("WScript.Shell")
Wsh.RegWrite "HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run\MyProgName", "c:\path2yourprogram.exe"

Obviously You need to change 2 things in the last line... you need to change "MyProgName" to whatever the name of your application is.... and you need to change "c:\path2yourprogram.exe" to the path where your program is installed. That should have it load on startup.

Comatose: You have helped me out on this to. I am making a program that will clean up registry and is a sort of a script blocker for files....
I made it a feature where you can have it start when Windows starts or you can disable that. but i am having trouble disabling it. i used the code you gave to enable it (dim wsh
set wsh = createobject("WScript.Shell")
Wsh.RegWrite "HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run\MyProgName", "c:\path2yourprogram.exe")
but is there a code you undew that?

[Christkdcdd]

Go to start->run and type 'regedit' Now find the folder in your registry: HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run\ and remove the key that your program wrote here.

Ok, but is there a way to do it in visual basic? I am making a program that is like script blocking for files and i want the user to be able to enable or disable it at a click of a button with out going into regedit....
Is there a code to disable this is vb?

[sasankkanda]

send me the entire code to run a application in background.

[321mm]

ummm how to you make it come back after this??????