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you can always start it minimized :)
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Re^7: How do I communicate with a Windows process?
by BrowserUk (Patriarch) on Jul 26, 2010 at 08:31 UTC

    Indeed.

    Or you can call Win32::SetChildShowWindow( 0 ) prior to calling system.

    But mention of the CGI aspect of the problem in the OP would have been nice. And why a flicker on a (usually unattended) webserver screen is a problem.

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