narayanaswamy Posted May 26, 2009 Share Posted May 26, 2009 Hi ,Can anyone tell me how to run a program in background in command prompt.For eg:if i have to run an example.exe in command prompt without the command prompt being show,what i have to do?Thanks in advance.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gunsmokingman Posted May 26, 2009 Share Posted May 26, 2009 VBS script is what you want. Example 1 no spaces in pathDim Act :Set Act = CreateObject("Wscript.Shell")Act.Run("C\FolderOne\YourExe"),0,TrueExample 2 spaces in pathDim Act :Set Act = CreateObject("Wscript.Shell")Act.Run(Chr(34) & "C\Folder One\Your Exe" & Chr(34)),0,True Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yzöwl Posted May 26, 2009 Share Posted May 26, 2009 I'm afraid you'd need to give us a lot more than you have if you wish a different solution to that you've thus far received. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
narayanaswamy Posted May 31, 2009 Author Share Posted May 31, 2009 Thanks for the reply.I may explain my need.I want an app to run in startup.But i wish it to run after 4 minutes of startup.So i thought of writing a batch file which has a pause of 4 minutes and then calls the app.then i will put this in the startup.But if i do this as explained,a command window will pop up at startup and will wait till the execution completes.But i want to do this silently without the user being known of it.Is there any way to do this.I dont want to do this using scheduled task.Also i will like to know how this is done in windows as it is done in linux.Thanks in advance.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yzöwl Posted May 31, 2009 Share Posted May 31, 2009 What app, (or at least what type), is it?If the app' has a commandline interface as opposed to GUI its execution may need to be implemented differently. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
d347hm4n Posted June 12, 2009 Share Posted June 12, 2009 Look at the command switches for cmd.cmd /?cmd -q "example.exe"I think, but the documentation is pretty good. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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