executing system commands without the command prompt popping up

I'm trying to write this program for school that stops kids from making batch files. I know the sys admin can restrict these computers if they wanted to but this is in a special room where the comps are used for too many things to restrict things on.

So anyhow, I wrote a program that minimizes itself to the system tray and keeps on deleting *.bat in a certain directory. Don't worry, I'm not deleting any need files lol.

But when you use the system() function in windows.h, a command prompt box pops up and sort of renders the program useless because every second the cmd box comes up.

I know there are programs that somehow execute system commands, but I can't figure out how to do it without the cmd window popping up.

Any help will be appreciated.

dont use system. treat it as if it doesnt exist. For windows you could use the api func DeleteFile() . details on msdn