Hide the command prompt in winpe?

[vishyc88]

Hi friends.. Is it possible to hide the command prompt in winpe so that i can hide the commands in the startnet.cmd file which gets executed automatically? Please help

[Tripredacus]

Put your commands in winpeshl.ini instead. Then the command prompt won't be displayed.

[Kullenen_Ask]

there is not a real working solution i have ever seen.

[Tripredacus]

there is not a real working solution i have ever seen.

winpeshl.ini does work. However if your shell program has the ability to launch a command prompt, I do not know how to hide it. I've only written custom shells that have the ability to launch a password protected command prompt.

[Kullenen_Ask]

what you mean "password protected command prompt". yes winpeshl.ini does work but i always need some batch files to get run that i can not hide. winpeshl.ini is not enough for me always.

[vishyc88]

Hi friends,

Ive googled a lot and i found a program called cmdow.exe which seems to work!

This is what i have done to hide the command prompt:

Firstly, while creating the winPE image you gotta put this program which is hardly 40kb into the system32 directory. And then in the startnet.cmd file, type:

cmdow @ /HID
wpeinit
wpeutil initializenetwork
<cmd>
<cmd>

It seems to work but the command prompt do appear for a second or two. Please let me know if it worked for you guys or if you have additional things you can suggest.

Thanks

[IcemanND]

As vishyc88 mentioned CMDOW will work to hide the window, I created a AutoIt script that is launched from startnet.cmd and when it launches it hides the CMD window.

[allen2]

You could also use hstart in winpeshl.ini to laucnh hidden the batchs.

[Tripredacus]

what you mean "password protected command prompt".

I had an HTA launch with the winpeshl.ini but needed the ability to access the cmd for troubleshooting reasons. In order to stop end-users from just being able to open the prompt and do whatever they want, it would prompt for a password in order to continue. This was documented here: