>>>>It keeps running, but it's really small...only a dozen lines of code, so it doesn't matter.
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>>>But it does appear in the task bar, right? I've seen one example of this kind of program starting the main program then CANCELing which appears to close the loader completely...
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>>Then start up the other program with RUN /N
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>After many great suggestions, this turned out to be the simplest solution.
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>And of course, now it seems painfully obvious :)
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>Thanks to all

LOL. It's amazing how many solutions turn out that way.