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Blorgbeard Blorgbeard Oh, I think I know what's happening - see my edit, I added "start" before the iisexpress line. In both cases, I execute it as admin. Tell me please, what I do wrong? Show 1 more comment. A confirmation message will appear. Click Yes. This opens the command line at an elevated administrator level. Type cd followed by full path to the folder with the. BAT file. This will move you into the directory. Type the name of the batch file.

This runs the batch file. It gives an error saying "The input line is too long. The syntax of the command is incorrect. Double-check the code, as there's a command that was not correctly written. Ensure all spaces and special characters are in the proper places.

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Nicole Levine, MFA. Co-authors: 3. Updated: March 8, Categories: Command Prompt. Article Summary X 1. Nederlands: Een batchbestand uitvoeren in Windows.

Thanks to all authors for creating a page that has been read , times. Improve this answer. Okay, thanks. I should have read each entry of help carefully. Shameless self-advertising: I once created a batch which is able to function as some kind of thread pool, just for processes: stackoverflow. If you need to provide arguments or if the path to the commands contains spaces remember to add quotes.

In this case you also need to provide a title for the opening console window: start "" "[path to command]" [command args] — Pierluigi.

Why GUI application blocks a batch file? In batch scripts, sometimes you'll see echo off at the beginning which, when you execute the script, will prevent all the commands from being echoed to the console.

The is similar but just for that single command. So, sometimes you'll see echo off. Did not work for me. Still stopped waiting for the application to close before it moved on. Most laptops that lack certain keys support hidden key combinations.

Create a batch file with the following lines: start foo. Nikhil Nikhil 1, 7 7 gold badges 23 23 silver badges 33 33 bronze badges. Then when you put double quotes around it, it thinks in a title, not an application.

This works. Salvioner 4 4 silver badges 14 14 bronze badges. Pierluigi Pierluigi 2, 1 1 gold badge 22 22 silver badges 37 37 bronze badges. The latest xargs win32 port works well nowadays the one included with git for windows anyway. This is great except it fails dealing with files containing unicode characters. Any plans to support unicode files? Not pretty, but it works.