Minimizing DOS windows

[Kingslayer]

I am pushing an update to 300 client machines through a .bat file ran at login. The problem that I am having is that the dos window shows the whole time the update is doing it's thing. I cant trust my users to not hit the close button on the dos window. Is there a way to make the dos window come up minimized and still have the update do it's thing?

[engjohn]

The syntax for the Start command is as follows:

START ["title"] [/path] [/I] [/MIN] [/MAX]
[/SEPARATE | /SHARED]
[/LOW | /NORMAL | /HIGH | /REALTIME |
/ABOVENORMAL | /BELOWNORMAL]
[/WAIT] [/B] [command/program]
[parameters]


stype start /? at the prompt for a complete list...

That should take care of you...

Type start "test" /min

and you will get a wihndow that starts minimized with the title test.

[eab]

I do not know about come up minamised but you can minamize a Dos window and send it to the taskbar by pressing "Alt" and then "space bar"

or a the windows Key.

[Teacher_Doug]

If I remember there's a command, "echo off" that you use at the start of the .bat which doesn't let anything display on the screen (I think)