v1.8.1 - TESTING ONLY - Visible attended launcher fix

v1.8.1 — visible attended launcher (TESTING ONLY)

TESTING ONLY - attended console visibility fix. Owner live acceptance remains required.

• Removed -WindowStyle Hidden from the foreground battery-check invocation:
  it shares the elevated runner console and could hide that whole window while
  the run continued at an unseen approval prompt. The separately started
  keep-awake helper remains hidden. Battery confirmation and cancel behavior
  are otherwise unchanged.
• Added a harmless native Windows console-visibility regression with the old
  Hidden flag as a negative control, plus continue/cancel stub paths. CI runs
  it under PowerShell 5.1 and 7 and repeats it against the extracted ZIP.
• Do not resume old hidden cleanup sessions blindly. Before retrying, close
  only the identified old ScreenConnect cleanup/stub runs, or reboot after
  saving work. Do not terminate unrelated cmd.exe processes.
• Post-AV persistence and its separate typed approval are unchanged. The
  agents do not run the real cleanup; actual UAC consent and battery dialog
  acceptance remain owner-live tests.

Verified Windows result

The harmless native fixture confirmed the reported failure and this fix:

Case	Before	After	Exit
Old foreground Hidden flag (negative control)	Visible	Hidden	0
Fixed foreground invocation, continue	Visible	Visible	0
Fixed foreground invocation, cancel	Visible	Visible	1; no continuation

Both Windows Server 2022 and 2025 passed under PowerShell 5.1 and 7, and the tests were repeated against the extracted ZIP. The actual native window state was measured with GetConsoleWindow/IsWindowVisible; these are not just source-marker assertions. The old control restores its window before exiting.

• Source: 87e5d60c9332dbef89c0ca92a343d704bf961a21
• Exact-source CI: https://github.com/pupontech/screenconnect-cleanup/actions/runs/37765531802
• PR CI also passed: https://github.com/pupontech/screenconnect-cleanup/actions/runs/37765536404
• Full local matrix: 32/32 commands passed; the new regression failed before the fix and passed afterward.
• ZIP is the tested Windows 2022 CI artifact, copied without rebuilding; 45-member manifest, version and full SHA verified.
• SHA-256: a781c8680bea8278243e68b4049624ac6114182089dc83c68278c319073eec8b

Before retrying

Save your work and reboot, or close only positively identified old ScreenConnect cleanup/stub sessions. Do not bulk-end cmd.exe or PowerShell processes. This release cannot close the owner machine's elevated hidden runs remotely.

Verify the checksum, extract this NEW ZIP into a fresh folder, then run START-HERE.bat. Do not use a previously downloaded v1.8.0 ZIP. Do not approve Step 5 removal if the detected ScreenConnect client is your own required remote-access client.

The agents ran no real cleanup, scanner, installation or live malicious sample. Actual UAC consent and the battery dialog on an unplugged owner machine remain untested by CI; full live collection/removal/rollback acceptance also remains pending. Mandatory post-AV persistence and the separate typed REMOVE gate are unchanged.