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..

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

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.

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..

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.

Look at the command switches for cmd.

cmd /?

cmd -q "example.exe"

I think, but the documentation is pretty good.