I have managed to resolve the minimising of the Console Window using the
following code...
GetConsoleWindow SW_MINIMIZE ShowWindow

Where *GetConsoleWindow* retrieves the window handle used by the console.
This particular function is not covered in my Win32sdk.hlp file.

Many thanks

Rob

Rob wrote:

>Happy 2005 to everyone.
>
>I have created a util that does/ does not log to a dos box for display
>(still struggling with windows), this works well. The issue I have is
>that if I run the util but do not log the Dos window still appears
>fullsize, I wish to have the screen minimised for no logging.
>I have checked the supplied manuals but to no avail, I am searching
>through the archives as well.
>Anybody able to shed some light on how to minimise a dos box?
>
>Many regards
>
>Rob
>
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