Re: 'Netsh firewall reset' but from a program.

Well, this code is buggy, because the second parameter to CreateProcess
should be a pointer to a writable string, because unicode version of
function may alter the string. Read MSDN:

[...] "The Unicode version of this function, CreateProcessW, can modify the
contents of this string. Therefore, this parameter cannot be a pointer to
read-only memory (such as a const variable or a literal string). If this
parameter is a constant string, the function may cause an access violation."
[...]

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"Control Freq" <nick@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Well, I don't often get to answer my own question, but I managed to
sort out a way of doing what I need.

This code snippet:

// Below does the same, but without showing a command prompt.
STARTUPINFO si;
PROCESS_INFORMATION pi;
ZeroMemory( &si, sizeof(si) );
si.cb = sizeof(si);
ZeroMemory( &pi, sizeof(pi) );
CreateProcess(NULL, "netsh firewall reset", NULL, NULL, FALSE,
CREATE_NO_WINDOW | NORMAL_PRIORITY_CLASS, NULL, NULL, &si, &pi);
//

... does what I need, without showing a DOS command prompt.

Thanks.


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