Windows command line start wait

Ferruccio Ferruccio This looks like a reasonable work-around, but it doesn't really address the underlying problem, which is covered by the accepted answer. I always disable 8. EXE will start IE with default web page. EXE www. Mrbios Mrbios 41 3 3 bronze badges. None of these answers worked for me. If you want passing parameter and your. Mack Mack 2 2 silver badges 11 11 bronze badges. If you run this: start "some valid command with spaces" You get a new command prompt window, with the obvious result for a window title.

BitDreamer BitDreamer 1 2 2 bronze badges. Community Bot 1 1 1 silver badge. Mustafa Kemal Mustafa Kemal 1, 15 15 silver badges 21 21 bronze badges. Todua T. Todua What does this parameter do? This doesn't answer op's question though. Put the command inside a batch file, and call that with the parameters. Also, did you try this yet? Mark Allen Mark Allen 1, 1 1 gold badge 14 14 silver badges 17 17 bronze badges. Rafael Pereira Rafael Pereira 1. What happens if the software gets updated?

Suddenly you've got an orphaned virtualpc. Sign up or log in Sign up using Google. Sign up using Facebook. Sign up using Email and Password. Post as a guest Name. Email Required, but never shown. The Overflow Blog. So it can also change variables which affects the caller. START will create a new cmd.

Addendum: Using CALL can change the parameters for batch and exe files , but only when they contain carets or percent signs.

I think that they should perform generally the same, but there are some differences. START is generally used to start applications or to start the default application for a given file type. START myworddoc. CALL myworddoc. It also allows process priority and affinity to be set. Calls one batch program from another without stopping the parent batch program.

The call command accepts labels as the target of the call. Call has no effect at the command-line when used outside of a script or batch file. Starts a separate Command Prompt window to run a specified program or command.

Used without parameters, start opens a second command prompt window. Hello 1. I want to start a SSL command prompt 2. Launch a new command prompt and run some commands 3. Now I need to run commands on First opened command prompt. I want to write batch script for this one. Up to step 2, I am okay, but step 3 was not running on first opened cmd.

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