Running another program in Windows bat file and not create child process

Synchronous. The second notepad won’t launch until you close the first. notepad.exe c:\temp\a.txt notepad.exe c:\temp\b.txt Asynchronous: The second notepad will launch even if you haven’t closed the first. start notepad.exe c:\temp\a.txt start notepad.exe c:\temp\b.txt More info about the start command: http://www.robvanderwoude.com/ntstart.php EDIT: The following comment was made elsewhere by @zhongshu, the original poster. I’m only … Read more