Closing the DOS window when running a launch script

[looslib]

In an XP script to launch a program, we would do:

"C:\Program Files\Parametric\bin\parametric.exe"

and the program would launch and the window would close.

In Win7, the window stays open unless we do this:

start "Program" "C:\Program Files\Parametric\bin\parametric.exe"

What has changed in Win7 that requires the start command and the "Program" naming?

 

[Nelviticus]

This TechNet post mentions that "unlike on other recent releases of Windows, on Windows 7 each 16-bit and MS-DOS-based application runs as a thread within a single virtual machine" which implies that there were quite a few changes to how DOS was emulated on Windows 7. It's not implausible that they also changed the command processor to not complete until it receives an exit code.

Nelviticus

 

[goombawaho]

Try this for the heck of it - worked in XP when a DOS box didn't want to close:

In a batch file using START
start "" "C:\Program Files\Folder\application.exe"

and the batch file will close right after application.exe is loaded.


No guarantees (and I can't test it for you), but give it a shot.

 

[GrimR]

what about doing it through powershell


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