On Sun, Oct 9, 2011 at 6:01 AM, Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> wrote:

> Date: Sun, 09 Oct 2011 03:35:54 +0000
> From: darkdescendant@gmail.com
>
> I haven't tried the 4 CR trick outlined in the original posting but this is
> an issue that I have to deal with all the time. It stops me from doing all
> my work in Emacs.

Does it help to invoke GUI programs via "start", like this:

d:\foo> start notepad

*** I didn't even think of that. I use that for a service that I am testing but didn't think to use it for non-service exes. I'll give that a shot when I am back in office tomorrow. Thanks for the idea!