[Bandors Jr.]

So I've tried a bunch of ways to hide the window.

IE:
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HWND hWnd = GetConsoleWindow();
ShowWindow( hWnd, SW_HIDE );

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FreeConsole();

etc etc. But they all flash the console before closing it.

Then I tried MoveWindow()

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int main()
{
    MoveWindow( GetConsoleWindow(), 0, 0, 0, 0, TRUE);
        // do whatever code bla bla bla
    return 0;
}

I'm very new to C++ and this was just for my Download&Execute project but it was a bitch having the console flash, not to mention a bit suspicious. More of you experience users won't need this, but ya.

[Sajuuk]

Why not just use WinMain as the entry point? Much easier...

[Bandors Jr.]

Why not just use WinMain as the entry point? Much easier...

IDK, I'm new and this is what worked for me :P

[jessman420]

Assuming you use visual studio....

The easiest way to accomplish this is create a new project in visual studio, as a console, and in creation options, make it a win32 project, and tick empty project. Then add your main.cpp and add a winmain for an entry point, in lieu of int main(), like you would do with a console..

This will create a completely hidden (console window only) application with no window flash. This can be used for background processes, key loggers, stubs etc.

[Qmz_]

Or just set subsystem to windows and
#pragma comment(linker,"/ENTRY:main")

[Sajuuk]

Assuming you use visual studio....

The easiest way to accomplish this is create a new project in visual studio, as a console, and in creation options, make it a win32 project, and tick empty project. Then add your main.cpp and add a winmain for an entry point, in lieu of int main(), like you would do with a console..

This will create a completely hidden (console window only) application with no window flash. This can be used for background processes, key loggers, stubs etc.

I use Code::Blocks and virtually do the same thing.

[notsteve]

Additionally, you can prevent your hwnd from being enumerated by a message-only window, which will still allow you to have a message loop (use timers & whatnot).

[dream_man]

I'm using just FreeConsole(); fast and no code :P