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Johnny Smitthy
Johnny Smitthy

Reputation: 11

Startup script to run in background

I have the following bat file:

@echo off
start /min powershell "& 'C:\Admin\c.ps1'"
exit

I don't want to display the powershell window as this is an administrative script that runs on startup.

I was under the impression that using start /min will solve it, but It's still displaying.

Upvotes: 1

Views: 5341

Answers (4)

Bali C
Bali C

Reputation: 31221

You can use a VBScript to stop the window from appearing at all.

Set objShell = WScript.CreateObject("WScript.Shell")
objShell.Run("C:\Admin\c.ps1"), 0, True

Plus you can use this instead of the batch file, so there will be no cmd window either.

Hope this helps.

Upvotes: 0

PA.
PA.

Reputation: 29339

START command has option /b to start an application without creating a new window.

try 

start /b powershell "& 'C:\Admin\c.ps1'"

Upvotes: 1

Shay Levy
Shay Levy

Reputation: 126722

PowrShell has a switch to launch itself hideen. That said, the console may be visible for a short period of time until it disappears. Since this is an administrative script, I would also recommend using the NonInteractive switch to prevent someone from interfering with it

@echo off
powershell -NonInteractive -File C:\Admin\c.ps1 
exit

If you can't afford the console to be visible at all, consider using a vbs file to launch powershell:

Set oShell = CreateObject("WSCript.Shell")
oShell.Run("powershell -NonInteractive -File C:\Admin\c.ps1",0,False)

Upvotes: 3

JMC
JMC

Reputation: 930

If you use 'Task Scheduler', 'Run Once On Startup', there is an option to hide windows like this.

Upvotes: 1

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