How to start Emacs without the cmd.exe window (on MS Windows)?

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It says emacs/bin/emacs.exe. If it's not necesarily useful, I'd like to stop it from starting with emacs. The extra window is messing me up a bit.

Ryan · Accepted Answer · 2016-02-10 21:01:13Z

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Instead of opening emacs.exe directly, open runemacs.exe. This will open Emacs without the extra window in the background.

answered Feb 10, 2016 at 21:01

Ryan

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The Windows installer for Emacs actually creates the shortcut to Emacs as runemacs.exe, yet the cmd.exe window still opens at launch time.
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