David,
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>In Win98SE, if I launch something like xcopy, and click the Properties button I can check close window on exit, which will create a shortcut that stores the data from the property page. But you don't have to launch the program from the shortcut, double clicking xcopy.exe will run and close.
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>There get to be fewer and fewer DOS commands that I tend to use, but they work fine from either ShellExecute or WSH.

That's what I thought, but the step to set the property can't be omitted. If it is, it doesn't close. Does a 32 bit console app close automatically? That's what I don't know.