How can I run a windows batch file but hide the command window

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How can I run a windows batch file but hiding the command window  I dont want cmd exe to be visible on screen when the file is being executed  Is this possible

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You could write a windows service that does nothing but execute your batch file   Since services run in their own desktop session  the command window won t be visible by the user

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To self-hide already running script you ll need getCmdPid bat and windowoMode bat  echo off  echo self minimizing call getCmdPid bat call windowMode bat -pid  errorlevel  -mode hidden  echo --other commands-- pause   Here I ve compiled all ways that I know to start a hidden process with batch without external tools With a ready to use scripts  some of them  rich on options    and all of them form command line Where is possible also the PID is returned  Used tools are IEXPRESS SCHTASKS WScript Shell Win32 Process and JScript Net - but all of them wrapped in a  bat files

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If you write an unmanaged program and use CreateProcess API then you should initialize lpStartupInfo parameter of the type STARTUPINFO so that wShowWindow field of the struct is SW HIDE and not forget to use STARTF USESHOWWINDOW flag in the dwFlags field of STARTUPINFO  Another method is to use CREATE NO WINDOW flag of dwCreationFlags parameter  The same trick work also with ShellExecute and ShellExecuteEx functions   If you write a managed application you should follows advices from http   blogs msdn com b jmstall archive 2006 09 28 createnowindow aspx  initialize ProcessStartInfo with CreateNoWindow   true and UseShellExecute   false and then use as a parameter of   Exactly like in case of you can set property WindowStyle of ProcessStartInfo to ProcessWindowStyle Hidden instead or together with CreateNoWindow   true   You can use a VBS script which you start with wcsript exe  Inside the script you can use CreateObject  WScript Shell   and then Run with 0 as the second  intWindowStyle  parameter  See http   www robvanderwoude com files runnhide vbs txt as an example  I can continue with Kix  PowerShell and so on   If you don t want to write any program you can use any existing utility like CMDOW  RUN  HID  c  SomeDir MyBatch cmd   hstart  NOWINDOW  D c  scripts  c  scripts mybatch bat   hstart  NOCONSOLE  batch file 1 bat   which do exactly the same  I am sure that you will find much more such kind of free utilities   In some scenario  for example starting from UNC path  it is important to set also a working directory to some local path   SystemRoot  system32 work always   This can be important for usage any from above listed variants of starting hidden batch

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Use Bat To Exe Converter and compile the Bat file as an executable   Steps    Open Bat to Exe Converter Select your Bat file In the options select  Invisible Application  Finish by pressing the compile button

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Native C   codified version of Oleg s answer -- this is copy pasted from a project I work on under the Boost Software License   BOOL noError  STARTUPINFO startupInfo  PROCESS INFORMATION processInformation  ZeroMemory  amp startupInfo  sizeof startupInfo    startupInfo cb   sizeof startupInfo   startupInfo dwFlags   STARTF USESHOWWINDOW  startupInfo wShowWindow   SW HIDE  noError   CreateProcess      NULL                                              lpApplicationName       Okay the const cast is bad -- this code was written a while ago        should probably be  amp commandLine 0  instead  Oh  and commandLine is       a std  wstring     const cast lt LPWSTR gt  commandLine c str              lpCommandLine     NULL                                              lpProcessAttributes     NULL                                              lpThreadAttributes     FALSE                                             bInheritHandles     CREATE NO WINDOW   CREATE UNICODE ENVIRONMENT     dwCreationFlags       This is for passing in a custom environment block -- you can probably       just use NULL here      options e   environment   NULL                    lpEnvironment     NULL                                              lpCurrentDirectory      amp startupInfo                                      lpStartupInfo      amp processInformation                               lpProcessInformation     if  noError        return GetLastError       DWORD exitCode   0   if  options w    Wait       WaitForSingleObject processInformation hProcess  INFINITE       if  GetExitCodeProcess processInformation hProcess   amp exitCode     0                exitCode    DWORD -1           CloseHandle  processInformation hProcess    CloseHandle  processInformation hThread

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This little VBScript from technet does the trick   Const HIDDEN WINDOW   12  strComputer       Set objWMIService   GetObject  winmgmts          amp    impersonationLevel impersonate       amp  strComputer  amp    root cimv2   Set objStartup   objWMIService Get  Win32 ProcessStartup    Set objConfig   objStartup SpawnInstance  objConfig ShowWindow   HIDDEN WINDOW Set objProcess   GetObject  winmgmts root cimv2 Win32 Process   errReturn   objProcess Create  mybatch bat   null  objConfig  intProcessID    Edit mybatch bat to your bat file name  save as a vbs  run it   Doc says it s not tested in Win7  but I just tested it  it works fine   Won t show any window for whatever process you run

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Using C  it s very easy to start a batch command without having a window open  Have a look at the following code example           Process process   new Process            process StartInfo CreateNoWindow   true          process StartInfo RedirectStandardOutput   true          process StartInfo UseShellExecute   false          process StartInfo FileName    doSomeBatch bat           process Start

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1 Download the bat to exe converter and install it 2 Run the bat to exe application 3 Download  pco images if you want to make good looking exe 4 specify the bat file location c  my bat  5 Specify the location for saving the exe ex c  my exe  6 Select Version Information Tab 7 Choose the icon file  downloaded  pco image  8 if you want fill the information like version comapny name etc 9 change the tab to option 10 Select the invisible application This will hide the command prompt while running the application  11 Choose 32 bit if you select 64 bit exe will work only in 32 bit OS  12 Compile 13 Copy the exe to the location where bat file executed properly 14 Run the exe

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For any executable file  you can run your program using cmd with  c  parameter   cmd  c  your program address   YourFileName  bat      - if it s a batch file   As a final solution  I suggest that you create a  cmd file and put this command in it   cmd  c  your program address   YourFileName  bat exit   Now just run this  cmd file

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Create a shortcut to your bat file by using the right-click and selecting Create shortcut   Right-click on the shortcut you created and click on properties   Click on the Run drop-down box and select Minimized

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