Double Commander

Hi guys.

I noticed a user had asked how to use the snapshot builds without the console, and now that I'm using a snapshot myself I am finding it a bit bothersome. However, it's a very handy this for a developer to have a console to dump info. to when debugging, so as a compromise, I have here a solution.

A program that NtWind used to make called hstart can run an application and hide its console window. Unfortunately, NtWind has been down for some time, so it's available here instead. The executable contains a valid digital signature, so you know it hasn't been messed with.

Download the zip file, and extract hstart.exe to your Double Commander installation folder. When you want to run doublecmd.exe, just run 'hstart.exe /NOCONSOLE doublecmd.exe' instead. This will run Double Commander with no console window.

Hope this helps

P.S. Thanks Double Commander crew for such an awesome file browser

Hey,

Thanks for the tip. I was also looking for such possibility previously, but I only found a few apps that modified the Subsystem field of the PE file and that wasn't working. This program seems to do this a different way.

Also, I checked and NtWind site is up and running and they have a more recent version of HiddenStart there (link).

Oh thanks Cobines. NtWind was down yesterday and the Wayback Machine has no pages from this year for it so I surmised it had been down since then.

Ehtyar.

P.S. To forum admins, external links probably shouldn't open in the mainFrame frame.

Thank you very much!
Works great!

Yes great, it's working.

Thanks a lot !

In fact, you can make a jscript file to do the same thing.
file: start_dc.js


Just 4 lines of working code, copy and paste them to a .js file, double click it.

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js works very good just in Windows7 I had to make modyfication of last line:

Later I find out that there is no "runas privilledged user" menu option for jscript, so you need some codes other than this to run dc as privilledged user:
var app = WScript.CreateObject("Shell.Application");
app.ShellExecute(script_path + "\\DoubleCommander\\doublecmd.exe", "", "", "runas", 0);

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I added command line parameter "--no-console" that hides console window at start.

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