With Start and Without Start

When you load an application with the Start facility, it will be opened in a new MS-DOS prompt window. Here is the illustration with Xcopy command:

Open MS-DOS window and move to C:\ folder. Type md c:\test and then press Enter to make the new folder. Now type xcopy c:\data c:\tes and press Enter. Xcopy will copy the data from C:\Data to C:\Test.

Now use the Start command. Type Start xcopy c:\data c:\tes and press Enter. This time xcopy will be executed in a new MS-DOS window. You can use the first MS-DOS window for the next task.