in reply to Multiple system commands in parallel

If you use:

for ($x=0; $x < scalar(@files); $x++ ) {
    $file=@files[$x];
    chomp $file;
    $cmd="start /min clone -F $file ";
    print "Launching Command is: $cmd\n";
    system($cmd);
}

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The programs will be started asynchronously, running in separate process group (with their own minimised windows), and will neither wait for the processes to complete nor be susceptible to ^C in the parent session.

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