Thread: receiving notification when user runs a program

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    receiving notification when user runs a program

    hi,
    i am creating a program to respond to other programes run by the user

    if the user runs "hello.exe", my program gets notified and perform some action.

    so the basic problem is: how do i get this notification to my program??

    so i am looking for something like

    Code:
    OnProgramRun
    {
    do action ......
    }
    platform : win98se

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    You mean in the same way that a virus scanner gets run whenever anyone tries to run an executable?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Salem
    You mean in the same way that a virus scanner gets run whenever anyone tries to run an executable?
    yup!

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    SetWindowsHookEx is given a "ShellProc".
    HSHELL_WINDOWCREATED is the nCode.

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    Change the value at the registry key HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\exefile\shell\open\command\ from ""%1" %*" to "yourprogram.exe "%1" %*". Each time the user runs a program your program will be run with the name of the program as an argument, you need only check the name against a list of program you need notification for.
    Be careful with this: If your program dosen't run the programs it recieves as arguments then you wont be able to open any programs and will likely not be able to open regedit to fix it.

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