Thread Subject: how to run external programs in the background

Hello,

I have to run an external program from Matlab,
The way I have to do it is to run a batch file from matlab, and this .bat file runs some executables:

  - in Matlab I wroke: !RUN.Bat

  -And in the batch file I have something like:
@echo off
start/w executable1 outputname1.wri inputname1.txt
start/w executable2 outputname2.wri outputname1.txt
@echo on
( it is just to run executables one by one, after the previous executable has finished)

The program run fine, but the problem is that it has to be run so many times changing inputs and it opens always a window showing when executables are running.

How can I run this process in the background, in order to keep this window closed or minimized?
Any idea will be useful!

Thank you very much for your help.