Visual Basic Vb Executable called from Command Line by objWShshell not terminating

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Visual Basic Vb Executable called from Command Line by objWShshell not terminating

We were using

Set objWShell = server.CreateObject("WScript.Shell")

Set objCmd = objWShell.Exec("c:\inetpub\wwwroot\website\myprog.exe params")

strPResult = objCmd.StdOut.Readall()

set objCmd = nothing: Set objWShell = nothing

To run a Vb6 executable on the command line and return the result to the calling asp page, and it was working fine.

However when running it via the asp script it was not terminating and you could see it in Task Manager.

This was solved by using a setting when building the exe in Vb6

Make sure the 'Unattended Execution' box is ticked.