I hope this is a simple problem to solve. I have a socket server and a socket client which work sending and recieving messages fine. What I would like to do is have the server run silently as a batch file. The way that I am calling the script now is through a command line which is not a problem. I want to have the server listening constantly without having the command prompt on the screen or minimized. My question....is there anyway to call a script and have it run silently in the background? I hope I have explained this well enough.