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author = "lf"
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categories = ["windows", "PowerShell", "win32"]
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date = 2016-11-29T04:20:46Z
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description = ""
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draft = false
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path = "/blog/launching-powershell-using-the-win32-api"
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tags = ["windows", "PowerShell", "win32"]
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title = "Launching PowerShell using the Win32 API"
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I was working on a personal project in C on Windows when I stumbled upon a really strange roadblock: a PowerShell instance would not actually run the script given to it when started via Windows API but it would when launched manually from a `cmd.exe`.
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Eventually the realisation came to me: PowerShell doesn't like the `DETACHED_PROCESS` option for `CreateProcess()`. I have no idea what it was doing with it there, but it didn't involve actually working.
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I changed it to `CREATE_NO_WINDOW` and all is fine in the world.
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