How to run an empty background process with a specific name?

I want to have a certain process always running in the background so it will be viewable in the Task Manager of windows, with the specific name I give it.

The process shouldn't do anything really, all I care about is to see the process name whenever I open the task manager and choose "processes".

One way to achieve this is to copy Notepad.exe , change its name to something and then run it. The problem is I don't want to have an ope开发者_StackOverflown window of notepad everytime I'm using the PC. I need it to run on background.

If it matters, I have Windows 7.

Thank you.

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You are looking for something like this:

#include <windows.h>

int APIENTRY _tWinMain(
    HINSTANCE hInstance,
    HINSTANCE hPrevInstance,
    LPTSTR    lpCmdLine,
    int       nCmdShow
)
{
    MSG msg;
    while (GetMessage(&msg, NULL, 0, 0))
    return 0;
}

This is the most simple Windows program. It does absolutely nothing and does not consume CPU.

I can't imagine why you want it, but this is what you describe!

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Here's a minimal C# version:

static class Program
{
    [System.STAThread]
    static void Main()
    {
        System.Threading.Thread.Sleep(System.Threading.Timeout.Infinite);
    }
}

You can compile this from the command line:

csc /target:winexe MyProg.cs

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Well if a minimized DOS window doesn't bother you then this DOS command will be very light weight and will do the job for you: start /min more