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So when I spawn NSIS process, it then spawns another one?
How I can bypass this?

I'm running a NSIS uninstaller over the ShellExecuteEx and the console app does not wait for it to finish. But when I try to run a notepad by specifing the full path the the WaitForSingleObject...

well the process creation is like this:
process A calls a console process the console calls a gui process(needs UAC), when process A calls a console then WaitForSingleObjects waits, but when the...

And what to do that the WaitForSingleObject works with console app and not with the GUI ones?

I call GetLastError after the WaitForSingleObject. If the mask par. in shellexecuteinfo is MASK_NOCLOSEAPP don't remember the correct name, then the error is 0 but is it's SYNCHRONIZE then the...

Ok, I now have an error after the WaitForSingleObject function, the GetLastError function returns 6 (ERROR_INVALID_HANDLE), but the process is creating, what can be the problem? if the handle was...

The project type is Win32Console

That's really strange, don't really know what to do:confused:

I have just tested the code snippet on W7 and it works good, but on Windows 10 the WaitForSingleObject is ignored

I have seen the first link, and I just copy pasted the answer code, and it still does not work

The problem is still present
The setup for ShellExecuteEx, and maybe this could be the issue, but from my main program I create an instance of the auto-updater with CreateProcess, and it does wait....

Yes I have fount this function but the WaitForSingleObject function does not wait for the process to be finished which is not good.


ShellExecuteEx(&ShellInfo);...

Hello!
I'm trying to write an auto updater for my exe file, but I have face a problem when I trigger the auto update I want to remove the old version of my program by running an uninstaller, and...