How to hide command window?

[Ronny]

I have an application (rxvt) which opens a Window when started (which
is not that unusual after all ;-)

The behaviour of this application can be customized via environment
variables. Now I would like to have on my desktop several icons,
each of which would, when clicked, launch this application, but
with a different set of environment variables.

To do this, I first created a CMD file corresponding to each of
the possible invocation patterns. Each CMD file looks roughly like
this:

rem Customize environment
set FOO=....
set BAR=....
rem Launch application
myappl.exe

Then I create desktop icons and associate them with each of these
CMD files.

This works well, but of course when I click on that icon, I see
a CMD window in addition to the window created by my application.

Is there a way how to hide this command window? Or is there a
better alternative to accomplish my goal?

Ronald

 

[Uwe Sieber]

I have an application (rxvt) which opens a Window when started (which
is not that unusual after all ;-)

The behaviour of this application can be customized via environment
variables. Now I would like to have on my desktop several icons,
each of which would, when clicked, launch this application, but
with a different set of environment variables.

To do this, I first created a CMD file corresponding to each of
the possible invocation patterns. Each CMD file looks roughly like
this:

rem Customize environment
set FOO=....
set BAR=....
rem Launch application
myappl.exe

Then I create desktop icons and associate them with each of these
CMD files.

This works well, but of course when I click on that icon, I see
a CMD window in addition to the window created by my application.

Is there a way how to hide this command window? Or is there a
better alternative to accomplish my goal?

http://www.uwe-sieber.de/files/hidrun.zip

If you start
c:\test\test.cmd
change to
c:\test\hidrun c:\test\test.cmd
assuming you put the hidrun.exe to c:\test.


Greetings from Germany

Uwe

 

[Code-Curious Mom]

Try using a .js file to run the CMD file. Something like

var WshShell = new ActiveXObject("WScript.Shell");
WshShell.run("C:\\foldername\\filename.cmd", 0, false);

Just substitute the path and filename you are using and save it as
filename.js. You can then make a shortcut to it for the desktop if desired.
Be sure to use double backslashes in the path as in above example.
(In case of wordwrap, there are 2 lines in the script, each one ends with a
semi-colon.)
For more details see
http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/d5fk67ky.aspx

 

[Ronny]

http://www.uwe-sieber.de/files/hidrun.zip

Thank you, this is great!

I wonder why Microsoft hasn't provided such an obviously useful
command in the first place...

Ronald

 

[Ramesh, MS-MVP]

Hi Ronald,

Method 1: Using a VBScript to launch a .CMD or .BAT file invisible. Check these links:

http://groups.google.com/group/microsoft.public.windowsxp.general/msg/5e39f8a64270b620
http://groups.google.com/group/microsoft.public.windowsxp.general/msg/d281575031842fed

Method 2:

http://groups.google.com/group/microsoft.public.windowsxp.general/msg/647cc8688adbef90

Method 3:

To run the command script window minimized, see:
http://groups.google.com/group/microsoft.public.windowsxp.general/msg/5a750118becee275

--
Regards,

Ramesh Srinivasan, Microsoft MVP [Windows Shell/User]
Windows® Troubleshooting http://www.winhelponline.com


I have an application (rxvt) which opens a Window when started (which
is not that unusual after all ;-)

The behaviour of this application can be customized via environment
variables. Now I would like to have on my desktop several icons,
each of which would, when clicked, launch this application, but
with a different set of environment variables.

To do this, I first created a CMD file corresponding to each of
the possible invocation patterns. Each CMD file looks roughly like
this:

rem Customize environment
set FOO=....
set BAR=....
rem Launch application
myappl.exe

Then I create desktop icons and associate them with each of these
CMD files.

This works well, but of course when I click on that icon, I see
a CMD window in addition to the window created by my application.

Is there a way how to hide this command window? Or is there a
better alternative to accomplish my goal?

Ronald

 

[Ronny]

Try using a .js file to run the CMD file. Something like

var WshShell = new ActiveXObject("WScript.Shell");
WshShell.run("C:\\foldername\\filename.cmd", 0, false);

Thank you - I didn't even know that Windows natively supports Script
files
in JavaScript!

Ronald

 

[Code-Curious Mom]

You're welcome. Be aware that if you use some sort of AV 'Script Blocking'
feature, this may trigger an alert due to the fact that it runs a program
(your CMD file).