Experts, I want to create a dos script to do some routine work. However, I would like to have it run in the background. In UNIX, it just simple put "&" at the end of the command. Is it a way to do it in the Windows environment ? Any suggestions are highly appreciated. thanks & best regards,

Windows doesn'y have the features of a real OS. Not much way to assign 'CPU priority'. If you want to simply not see it, you can create a shortcut to the BAT and in the shortcut properties set it to run minimized. ===================================== If at first you don't succeed, you're about average. M2

Another option is to download bat2exe (not freeware) http://www.battoexe.com/?gclid=CIDL_OXtxYYCFSpZQgodZHrhng When you compile the bat file to a exe file, you can choose to compile it so it runs in ghost mode.

Hi Shroom, If that's the bat2exe which has been kicking around for 20 years, I have found it to be useless on all but the most trivial bat files. ===================================== If at first you don't succeed, you're about average. M2

Hi M2, Its not that old bat2exe.com file. (Which really IS useless). This version is pretty new to my knowledge, and it has worked well so far on all batches i have converted. Check out the link:)

I got the DL. I'll see if it does anything useful. ===================================== If at first you don't succeed, you're about average. M2