I am happily launching a program in a windows system from Lua using

```
strProgram = '"C:\\Program Files\\Ps Pad\\PSPad.exe"'
strCmd = 'start "" '..strProgram
os.execute(strCmd)

```

This works correctly, launching the program and the script finishing.
How ever it flashes up a command window for a fraction of a second, does any one have a way from Lua to launch a program.