Tough question about keep running an app when logoff win98

[morequester]

Hi buddy,

Anyone knows how could an application keep running when logoff win98? It means this application never exits when user logoff, then logon.

Thanks in advance.

 

[TekTippy4U]

HUh!???

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[morequester]

up...

 

[joker19745]

That's the most confusing post I've seen so far, can you give anymore information, morequester?

 

[torturedmind]

i think he means he wants to keep an app running even when the user pressed >start>log off user... (duh, i think am more confused than anyone else.)

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[stormbind]

I don't see what is so confusing about it. Makes perfect sense to me. Win98 does not have user authentication, so you would think it is possible but I don't know how

Here are some guesses:

DOS apps: I think anything run via autoexec.bat will continue to run in the background.

Win32 apps: I don't think it can be done. Everything in the startup section of the registry loads after the shell :/

You can set more than one shell but I think they unload when you logoff. Go to RUN > MSCONFIG and look for a line that reads SHELL=EXPLORER.EXE; (or similar)

I think you can change that to load a different shell, or multiple shells; i.e. SHELL=EXPLORER.EXE PROGMAN.EXE; -- I think this means it will be there for every user.

If you mess it up you can fix it from DOS using EDIT.

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[Grenage]

Yes, it makes perfect sense to me too.

morequester, as far as I am aware this is not possible using windows 9x.

 

[TekTippy4U]

It depends which APP

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[morequester]

Maybe I can explain it more detailedly.
This is a win32 app. On WinNT or up, it runs as a service. But on Win98, there is no service, so we have to do it as a normal app.
I know this is possible, because we have an app running like this, but we don't know how it does.

For stormbind,
Thanks for your advice. I tried SHELL=EXPLORER.EXE PROGMAN.EXE; and it works. That is great.
But there is something different. Above, I mentioned an app running like this (not my app), the process ID keeps the same one everytime when I logoff, then logon. But my app PID changed everytime.

Anyway it works. ^^

 

[TekTippy4U]

But on Win98, there is no service

not true

BTW Explorer.exe is an Win32 NT module

glad whatever works for you .....still woun't say which App/Service....OK

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