Title: Hiding the command window Post by: theGECK on March 23, 2011, 06:23:57 PM Here's a question - I would like to hide the command window for the miners on my machine. The miners don't affect my machine's performance, throttle down when I want to watch/play something, and then come right back up when I'm done with it. Since I haven't closed any of them down for quite some time, I'd like for the command prompt to be hidden when I launch it, or at least off of my taskbar (Windows). Is there a way to do this?
Title: Re: Hiding the command window Post by: MikeDaSpike on March 23, 2011, 07:09:37 PM Google movetotray or minimize to tray. There are several apps that can minimize any window to the system tray.
Title: Re: Hiding the command window Post by: hangover on March 24, 2011, 05:43:19 AM Or you can write simple AutoIt script (miner-starter) to start miner from it and compile it to exe with corresponding option.
Title: Re: Hiding the command window Post by: Herodes on March 28, 2011, 05:43:31 PM Here's a vb-script that I made. It will hide the cmd window from showing. Change it to your needs and put it in a .vbs-file in the startup folder:
Code: 'Script to start bitcoin and poclbm.exe in the background. Title: Re: Hiding the command window Post by: LMGTFY on March 28, 2011, 05:49:25 PM What about running bitcoind (bitcoind.exe?) as a Windows service? You'd be able to start/stop/restart it through the "Services" management console GUI, and there would (I presume) be no unpleasant terminal window.
Disclaimer: reason I mention this is because someone asked how to do this fairly recently, here on the forum, and my "contribution" was less than stellar, as I recall (it's been some time since I last regularly used Windows...) Title: Re: Hiding the command window Post by: [Tycho] on March 28, 2011, 05:54:55 PM Also those windows will not be shown if you run miners as different user in Windows, using scheduler.
Title: Re: Hiding the command window Post by: bobR on March 28, 2011, 05:58:16 PM Create a shortcut to start it... start minimized ... add it to your start up file
or schedule it as a task to run at start up ad never see it or schedule it only to run when idle Title: Re: Hiding the command window Post by: urizane on March 28, 2011, 09:47:35 PM The point of the original post was to get the terminal windows off of his taskbar. For me, I don't mind the terminal windows since minimizing things puts them at the end of the Alt+Tab list. I generally don't mess with the taskbar unless I want to mess with the clock.
Title: Re: Hiding the command window Post by: theGECK on March 28, 2011, 09:55:34 PM Also those windows will not be shown if you run miners as different user in Windows, using scheduler. So, if I had multiple user accounts on a machine, I could use the scheduler to run something and it won't show up? So, I could run a .bat file to join a pool, and it wouldn't show the command prompt? I will test this out. Title: Re: Hiding the command window Post by: Ricochet on March 30, 2011, 05:17:16 AM I've always been a fan of the "PowerMenu" app for minimizing programs to the tray. It's a *really* small and simple file (less than 150 KB) and it does what it's supposed to do. I use the version that doesn't require installation, though I'm guessing the installer version would have an option to start at bootup if you'd like.
http://www.abstractpath.com/powermenu/ Title: Re: Hiding the command window Post by: TurdHurdur on March 30, 2011, 05:40:53 AM I like hidec.exe/RunHiddenConsole.exe which you can get from http://redmine.lighttpd.net/attachments/660/RunHiddenConsole.zip, where I originally found the link here: http://wiki.nginx.org/PHPFastCGIOnWindows. It's only 2KB and I use it for a scheduled task that rysncs a file on a remote server. Security software may complain about it, seeing it can be used for malicious purposes.
If you still want output, you could make a shortcut like: Target: C:\path\to\hidec.exe cmd /C "miner.exe --arguments values > output.txt" Start in: C:\path\to\miner You'll have to kill them from Task Manager, which isn't a big deal with miners. Title: Re: Hiding the command window Post by: theGECK on March 30, 2011, 04:56:40 PM So, I've discovered a VBS script can make a hidden window. Here's where I am:
This is a VBS script that can launch something. In this case, Ufasoft's CPU miner. Code: Set objApp = CreateObject("WScript.Shell") M$ has a sample script up here (http://gallery.technet.microsoft.com/ScriptCenter/8bbed56f-a7aa-491f-a296-687dd96098a3/) that lets you launch notepad in a hidden window. You can kill notepad from the task manager, but not go to it using alt+tab. Right now, I'm assuming that you are essentially just running the notepad.exe but because the window is set to hidden, are unable to use it. Code: Const HIDDEN_WINDOW = 12 So, I'm now trying to figure out how exactly to make this launch the CPU miner in the hidden window. I would continue to work on this right now, but I need to get some work done that isn't bitcoin related, so I figured I'd put my discoveries here for y'all. My assumption is that just changing notepad.exe won't work, since the GetObject above it is specifying root, but I could be very wrong, and maybe all that is needed is to paste the Ufasoft string into where it says notepad.exe. Title: Re: Hiding the command window Post by: Miner-TE on March 30, 2011, 05:45:50 PM This works for me. Save file as .VBS and modify the command line
C:\Mine\ufasoft\bitcoin-miner.exe -t 2 -o http://mining.bitcoin.cz:8332 -u <USERNAME> -p <Password> Code: Const HIDDEN_WINDOW = 12 Title: Re: Hiding the command window Post by: BitterTea on March 30, 2011, 06:05:54 PM You could use Kiv's poclbm GUI (http://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=3878.0). I think it's really slick, and hides in the task bar when not in use.
Title: Re: Hiding the command window Post by: theGECK on March 30, 2011, 07:20:01 PM You could use Kiv's poclbm GUI (http://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=3878.0). I think it's really slick, and hides in the task bar when not in use. I do, which is what made me want something similar (or better) for the Ufasoft's CPU miner that I run. Or for when I visit a friend's house and want to "use his computer to check my email". :) |