Someone told me I should post this in the examples section.  I wrote this to make it easy for me to call a Windows console application and get its output using a single line of AutoIt code.  I hope it's helpful to someone else.   #include <Constants.au3> ; Examples: MsgBox(0,"Windows Version",_RunWaitGet(@ComSpec & " /c ver",1,"",@SW_HIDE)) MsgBox(0,"System Info",_RunWaitGet(@SystemDir & "\systeminfo.exe",1)) ; #FUNCTION# ==========================================================