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What is the best way to hide a command prompt window

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Mar 15, 202615940 views
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I'm running the headless interface of VirtualBox (VBoxHeadless.exe) with Ubuntu Server running on it. Every time I run VBoxHeadless, it starts a command prompt window which just sits on the taskbar taking space which could have been used by more useful programs. I want to hide this non-functional c…

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Hidden Start, aka hstart, is probably what you're looking for. Use it to run VBoxHeadless.exe. Console applications and batch scripts are regularly run at Windows startup and in schedule. The main inconvenience of this is that every application crea…

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