"Ewert, Mark" <mark.ewert(a)intel.com> wrote in message news:C6F5CF431189FA4CBAEC9E7DD5441E0104A23E5A(a)orsmsx402.amr.corp.intel.com... I'm running an application that calls the stubbed out function GetConsoleWindow(). I want the application to stay in the dos console when it runs but unfortunately when it sees a NULL from GetConsoleWindow() it loads a graphical window. Any ideas on what GetConsoleWindow() should actually return? If you only want to run in a console then do not use a main(void) entry like: int main(int argc, char *argv[]) Change it to the following example app. Note that if using MSVC remove the "subsystem :console" from the linker options. #include <windows.h> int APIENTRY WinMain(HINSTANCE hInstance, HINSTANCE hPrevInstance, LPSTR lpCmdLine, int nCmdShow) { /* new console for this process */ AllocConsole(); /* Get handle to standard out */ HANDLE hwnd = GetStdHandle(STD_OUTPUT_HANDLE); unsigned long ulWritten; for (int i = 0; i < 5; i++) { /* writes a character string to a console screen buffer */ WriteConsole(hwnd,"Hello World\n",12,&ulWritten,NULL); Sleep(1000); } return 0; } GetConsoleWindow is only implemented on newer versions of windows. Jason http://goffconcepts.com