Windows batch script launch program and exit console

Question

I have a batch script that I use to launch a program  such as notepad exe  When I double click on this batch file  notepad starts normally  but the black window of the cmd who launched notepad exe remains in the background  What do I have to do in order to launch notepad exe and make the cmd window disappear   edit   is more complicated than using  I   The cmd calls cygwin  and cygwin starts notepad  I use   start  I  path cygwin bin bash exe  and the first window  cmd  disappears  but a second window   cygwin bin bash exe  is still on the background  In the cygwin script I used notepad exe  amp  and then exit

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The simplest way ist just to start it with start  start notepad exe   Here you can find more information about start

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Hmm    i do it in one of my batch files like this  without using CALL or START     SystemRoot  notepad exe     URI  GOTO ENDF   I don t have Cygwin installed though and I am on Windows XP

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ComSpec   c  systemroot  notepad exe

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start      SystemRoot  Notepad exe    Keep the    in between start and your application path     Added explanation   Normally when we launch a program from a batch file like below  we ll have the black windows at the background like OP said    SystemRoot  Notepad exe   This was cause by Notepad running in same command prompt  process   The command prompt will close AFTER notepad is closed  To avoid that  we can use the start command to start a separate process like this   start  SystemRoot  Notepad exe   This command is fine as long it doesn t has space in the path  To handle space in the path for just in case  we added the   quotes like this   start   SystemRoot  Notepad exe    However running this command would just start another blank command prompt  Why  If you lookup to the start     the start command will recognize the argument between the   as the title of the new command prompt it is going to launch  So  to solve that  we have the command like this   start      SystemRoot  Notepad exe    The first argument of    is to set the title  which we set as blank   and the second argument of    SystemRoot  Notepad exe  is the target command to run  that support spaces in the path    If you need to add parameters to the command  just append them quoted  i e    start      SystemRoot  Notepad exe    lt filename gt

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Use start notepad exe   More info with start

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Try to start path to cygwin bin bash exe

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start    ExeToExecute   method does not work for me in the case of Xilinx xsdk  because as pointed out by  jeb in the comments below it is actaully a bat file   so what does not work de-facto is  start    BatToExecute   I am trying to open xsdk like that and it opens a separate cmd that needs to be closed and xsdk can run on its own  Before launching xsdk I run  source  the Env   Paths  with settings64 bat  so that xsdk bat command gets recognized  simply as xsdk  withoitu the  bat   what works with  bat  call BatToExecute

[windows] Windows batch script launch program and exit console

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