Batch files: How can I avoid the command line window from appearing when running my bat???

[GreenLantern]

Windows xp
I'm trying to launch some apps at once thru a bat file.
when the last app launches, the command line window will stick around until I close that last app.
but at that launch it's work is done. I want it gone! makes it look like I'm running more apps than I am.

Can anyone point me to a good resource for this type of thing?

 

[lobadobadingdong]

can't you just have it do an exit command at the end of your batch file ?!? and set the batch file to run minimized?

 

[TheDiggler]

Try invoking that last app as:
start path/app.exe

(i.e. insert the word "start" before the path & filename of the app)
It doesn't hurt to make the last line of the batch file "exit" either (as lobadobadingdong suggested)

 

[GreenLantern]

Thanks for the replies. but they didn't work.

yes, I can run minimized but that isn't the point and the batch file is exited once the launched program ends anyway.

Diggler, your suggestion looked promising but it had a strange result: the program didn't start, the command window had focus and was sitting at the ready prompt in the directory of the app I was trying to start. That doesn't seem to jive with what you were expecting.

 

[TheDiggler]

Hmm... Care to post your batch file in here? Also, try putting "" quotes around the text after the start command.
i.e. start "appPath\appExecutable"

 

[GreenLantern]

I can post it tonight.
thanks for the help