Executing system command (third party program) from extend script without showing console on windows

Question

I am using following code on mac:
app.system("/path/to/external/executable &");
It runs external program in background (without showing console/terminal).
On windows I tried many things like:
app.system('start "" "/path/to/external/executable"');
app.system('start "" /B "/path/to/external/executable"');
And I was also trying to solve it using visual basic.
Unfortunately everytime I use app.system(...) then windows console is showed on the screen for half of the second, then it disappears and progrm runs in background. Is it possible to avoid showing console window? Maybe there is another way of executing third party program?

Answer 1

You can try to save a vbscript :
Dim objShell
Set objShell = WScript.CreateObject( "WScript.Shell" )
objShell.Run("""\path\to\external\executable"""), 0, True
Set objShell = Nothing
than just execute it from javascript: 
var vbFile = new File("path to your vbscript file")
vb.execute();