Ah. "ping -n 6 localhost < nul" works.

Having a dickens of a time enforcing a pause in the batch file.

This:

@echo off
taskkill /F /FI "WindowTitle eq OldTask*" /T

ping -n6 127.0.0.1 > nul 2> nul
ping -n6 127.0.0.1
timeout /T 5 /NOBREAK

start "Starting New Task..." "C:\newtask.exe"

Works fine (pauses 15 seconds) when I launch directly from the windows GUI, but when I trigger it, it goes straight from the taskkill to the start without pausing.

ping and timeout are both stock windows apps (no cygwin or anything present).

Any thoughts?