Is there a way to execute a command-line application without it needing to open a console? Will I have to redirect the standard IO streams? I'm asking because I threw together a batch source-formatter (which just adjusts the indentions, nothing like Astyle) and I make a call to a program using exec(). However, I feel like Windows spends more time opening/closing the window multiple times than it does actually executing the program. EDIT: Well, I should've checked on this first. This had happened on my old computer, but I recently (last week) got a new computer, and from what I see it isn't doing it anymore....