Accessing Dos im a newb

Hey, i'm a newbie at c++. Is there anyway to access the windows system files through a c++ program? Kind of like running a command through dos. I could really use help here. Second question. How do you create a system tray icon in windows? can this be done in c++? i feel very dumb. please help me out.

lol don't feel dumb, i've been doing c++ for a year and i don't have a clue how to make a system tray icon. my best guess at that you could find a tutorial at http://www.codeproject.com/.

[5 minutes later...] yep, the article is here.

never tried it myself, but as a general rule 'the codeproject' is awesome.

as for running a command through dos, the win32 command 'system()' will run a command as if you are typing it into an MS-DOS prompt. for instance:

system("edit myFile.txt");

will quickly pop open a console window, run the command "edit myFile.txt" and then show the resultant MS-DOS text editor.

hope that was what you were after.
keep coding!

Hi. this is very good class which makes system tray icon. Site is http://forums.xisto.com/no_longer_exists/ . Try this. Thanks.