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Kathir Subramaniam
Kathir Subramaniam

Reputation: 1245

Hide Command Prompt Window on Startup till start time end

I am creating a windows application as a startup application. It will be started automatically on system startup. I want to delay the start time of my application for 5 minutes. For this i have created a custom script with below code and placed it in 'startup' folder. 

@Echo off
TIMEOUT /T 300
start /b /d "{application path}" application

It will launch the application immediately after delay time completed. At this time command prompt window is appearing as below.

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But for my requirement, this command prompt window must be hidden. How to do this?

Upvotes: 2

Views: 2061

Answers (2)

Kathir Subramaniam
Kathir Subramaniam

Reputation: 1245

Instead of using batch file, i have created a console application to start my application. Placed this console application in 'startup' folder. It automatically triggered and launched the application on system startup.

Upvotes: 0

user6017774
user6017774

Reputation:

Use a vbscript to do this.

wscript.sleep 300000
CreateObject("wscript.shell").Run "C:\folder\file.exe"

You have to use above function to hide a command prompt - you may as well put the timeout into the vbs script. One less file.

Upvotes: 1

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