Thread: how to make a batch file start hidden or minimized

Take a look here:

http://www.commandline.co.uk/cmdow/index.html

Use cmdow to start the batch file minimised

nevermind... googled hard enough and found the answer. This may be FAQ worthy

http://www.computing.net/dos/wwwboard/forum/14270.html

"the process take 3 files. one launch.bat one invis.vbs and one (your program)

in launch.bat(this files runs your program silently) put in...

wscript.exe "C:\yourpath\invis.vbs" "your file.bat"

in invis.vbs put...

CreateObject("Wscript.Shell").Run """" & WScript.Arguments(0) & """", 0, False

and finaly in your file put whatever u want...

echo off
erase c:\junk.txt

well your done just open up launch.bat"


works for me

even easier. create a shortcut to the .bat file, and set the properties of the shortcut to run Minimized. You can even assign it a pretty icon then.

i just might try that option too. Seems my way still allows the dos box to be seen for a second depending on if the cpu is on high load.

you just see it running in the taskbar while it's running for a moment

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thanks alot for that tip. It works great! Doin it that way speeds up the program loading just a little bit.

theres always the option with RR to list the app on the apps screen and use startup commands to get rr to run them on rr start

just a thought