CMD program run background

[narayanaswamy]

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..

[gunsmokingman]

VBS script is what you want.

Example 1 no spaces in path

Dim Act :Set Act = CreateObject("Wscript.Shell")
Act.Run("C\FolderOne\YourExe"),0,True

Example 2 spaces in path

Dim Act :Set Act = CreateObject("Wscript.Shell")
Act.Run(Chr(34) & "C\Folder One\Your Exe" & Chr(34)),0,True

[Yzöwl]

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.

[narayanaswamy]

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..

[Yzöwl]

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.

[d347hm4n]

Look at the command switches for cmd.

cmd /?

cmd -q "example.exe"

I think, but the documentation is pretty good.