Console applications and batch scripts are regularly run at Windows startup and in schedule. The main inconvenience of this is that every application creates a new console window which flickers on the screen. Hidden Start (or Hstart) is a small startup manager that allows console applications and batch files to be started without any windows in the background. Hstart is very small (~40 Kb), but it allows you to: - start multiple applications in the specified order synchronously; - start console applications without any windows in the background; - start non-elevated applications from elevated scripts and batch files (new in v3.0); - handle UAC privilege elevation under Windows Vista and above; - set the working directory and priority class of the created processes; - show success and error messages after command execution.