Explorer Shell shortcuts with a DOS shell

Michael Schaap cygwin@mscha.org
Thu Jan 16 02:32:00 GMT 2003


On 16-Jan-2003 01:13, Dave Hooper wrote:
> You know what I would do?  I'd write a tiny .exe (for Win32) wrapper around
> cmd.exe and use that to execute your .bat which in turn spawns bash, etc.
> Why?  Because as far as I know there's no way to instruct a shortcut to 'run
> hidden' (you can run Minimized, though).
> 
> So, if the command shell window is 'only slightly' annoying, you can set
> your shortcut to
> 
> cmd.exe /c your-batch-script.bat
> 
> and set that shortcut's properties to run minimized.
> 
> But, if the command shell window is 'really very' annoying, write a cheesy
> .exe that does a CreateProcess() on cmd.exe and specifies the SW_HIDE flag
> on launch.
> 
> This is from memory, so apologies in advance for any mistakes or omissions.
> NB - this isn't really on-topic for Cygwin as it's a Win32-explorer
> integration problem not a Cygwin problem.  Of course, you could use Cygwin
> (or Mingw32) to create your wrapper .exe ! :-)
> 
> Naturally you'll want to use command.exe instead of cmd.exe if you're using
> Win9x instead of NT/2K/XP.  You could even make use of the COMSPEC
> environment variable (e.g. on my 2K box Windows has this set to
> J:\WINNT\system32\cmd.exe)

Or just make sure you have the cygutils package installed, and run:

     cygstart --hide your-batch-script.bat

  - Michael


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