You know what I would do? I'd write a tiny .exe (for Win32) wrapper around cmd.exe and use that to execute your .bat which in turn spawns bash, etc. Why? Because as far as I know there's no way to instruct a shortcut to 'run hidden' (you can run Minimized, though).
So, if the command shell window is 'only slightly' annoying, you can set your shortcut to cmd.exe /c your-batch-script.bat and set that shortcut's properties to run minimized. But, if the command shell window is 'really very' annoying, write a cheesy .exe that does a CreateProcess() on cmd.exe and specifies the SW_HIDE flag on launch. This is from memory, so apologies in advance for any mistakes or omissions. NB - this isn't really on-topic for Cygwin as it's a Win32-explorer integration problem not a Cygwin problem. Of course, you could use Cygwin (or Mingw32) to create your wrapper .exe ! :-) Naturally you'll want to use command.exe instead of cmd.exe if you're using Win9x instead of NT/2K/XP. You could even make use of the COMSPEC environment variable (e.g. on my 2K box Windows has this set to J:\WINNT\system32\cmd.exe) dave > From: "Mutiso, Anthony" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > I am searching for way to build Explorer shell integration tools > that I can call from say the Explorer "Send To" menu and have it > execute a shell script without the annoying DOS shell. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
