Starting a windows application in the background
Posted March 29, 2007 in miscOnce you know how to do it, the incantation is actually quite simple: start app.exe
Running an application in the background, means you can go on doing other things in the same command-line window, while you wait for the program to finish.
It is also useful if you’re writing a script and your language of choice has no support for fork and no access to the CreateProcess Windows API. You can just do something like system("start app.exe") and the system call will return control immediately, rather than blocking until app.exe finishes.