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When I run Emacs, a console window pops up. How do I make it go away?

April 26, 2017away console Emacs pops run window

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When I run Emacs, a console window pops up. How do I make it go away?

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This is annoying, I know, and you shouldn’t have to be dealing with this. But please bear with me for now. If it isn’t there already, prepend “start” to the last line of the .bat file (the line that invokes the emacs.exe executable). Then create a shortcut icon to the emacs.bat file, and edit the Properties of the shortcut (right click on the icon). On the Program tab, select Run: to be Minimized and make sure the Close on exit checkbox is checked. Double click on the icon, and Emacs should start up cleanly. Reportedly, invoking emacs.exe with gnuclientw also prevents it from popping up its console window. gnuclientw is a part of the gnuserv package.