Windows batch-file that continues after launching each program

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I'm trying to create a very simple Windows-XP batch file:

Program1.exe
Sleep 3
Program2.exe
Sleep 5
Program3.exe
Sleep 11

Of course, I don't want to have to exit each program, before the next one starts. The default for batch files seems to be "stop until the previous program exists".

The three executables listed above are program like Notepad: They open and run and don't just "open, run, close".

How do I get this script to run as expected?

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Another suggestion: If you are putting your program in quotes because there are spaces in the path to the exe, you need to do this:

start "" "C:\myPath\myApp.exe"

Found it here: Run Windows application from Command Prompt

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Use start instead:

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Edit: Do not miss the first pair of empty quotes, this is the title of the process/window.

start <title> <command> <parameters>

See start /? for further details.

Windows – Start a program based on a wildcard in a Batch Script

This assumes that the target folder would only contain a single unins$num.exe executable, and that the batch script is in the same folder as the uninstaller:

@echo off
FOR /f "tokens=*" %%G IN ('dir /b unins*.exe') DO %%G

In basic terms it just loops through the output of dir /b unins*.exe and executes each result one-by-one.

If you wanted it so that the batch script could be executed from another location (but still kept in the same folder as the uninstallation executable) then you could add %~dp0 (the path of the batch script) to the script:

@echo off
FOR /f "tokens=*" %%G IN ('dir /b %~dp0\unins*.exe') DO %~dp0\%%G

Finally, if you wanted the batch script in a different folder to the uninstallation executable then you just replace %~dp0 with whatever the full path is, e.g. if the uninstaller is in C:\CoolProgram:

@echo off
FOR /f "tokens=*" %%G IN ('dir /b C:\CoolProgram\unins*.exe') DO C:\CoolProgram\%%G

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