This seems to be related to bug #1849, but perhaps never properly fixed.<div><br></div><div>Anyways, when opening emacs from Emacs.exe, which is difficult to not do in Windows 7 with pinning to the task bar, Emacs will open with an unneeded console window that cannot be destroyed.</div>
<div><br></div><div>This seems likely due to the fact that Emacs is spawned as a console application when run in this manner.  However, I think there is a simple fix that doesn&#39;t cause problems when the program is run as a console app.</div>
<div><br></div><div>By calling the FreeConsole win32 function when Emacs initializes it&#39;s GUI this should kill any os spawned console windows, had they not been opened separately.</div><div><br></div><div>See:</div><div>
<a href="http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms683150%28v=vs.85%29.aspx">http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms683150%28v=vs.85%29.aspx</a> </div><div><br></div><div>I&#39;ve used this function to great effect in other applications, and am confident it&#39;d work. I&#39;d have fixed it and created a patch myself, but I&#39;ve spent the last few hours trying to get Emacs to build on this weird setup I have here.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Indy</div>