Hm, weird. Open cmd.exe and run the .bat from there to see if there's any output. What are your system specs? still nothing... don't know whats going on... I had a similar problem and got it solved by doing following: When running Discretion.exe, I get: Please run Discretion.bat instead of Discretion.exe so you can see information in the terminal. After this, when I run Discretion.bat, the screen just quickly pops up and closes. After this I try to run the bat directly from the command line by typing "Discretion.bat". I get the following error: 'cmd' is not recognized as an internal or external command, operable program or batch file. After this I simply type "Discretion.exe 1" in the command line and it starts working!