RE: Strange exec() behaviour with php-win.exe (5.5.9), opens a VISIBLE intermediating CMD.exe

Forgot the rich text on... 2nd time, hope it posts formatted properly.

I use PHP on my system for some tasks, since I already know the language
and don't want the whole windows script baggage, so I sometimes use
PHP-WIN.EXE to do some tasks.

[unimportant] One of these tasks is simply to check a file's binary header,
while having the same extension,  and run it through the appropriate program.

file.x opens: php-win.exe script.php path_to_file.x

script.php determines what file.x might be and opens program A if it has
certain header, B if another header and so on.[/unimportant]

I had (still have but don't use) 5.2.11, this one opens programs A to Z properly...
no interfering CMD window. It waits in the background for the program to finish,
but that was all.

Now I have 5.5.9.0 and when I use php-win.exe I get the intermeriating CMD.exe
with a visible window.

Running: exec($app1 . " \"" . $fpath . "\"") gives me:

php-win.exe
command: "C:\tools\php-win.exe" "C:\tools\wrapper.php" "D:\file.x"
-> child process: cmd.exe
command: cmd.exe /c "C:\tools\appA.exe "D:\file.x""
-> child of cmd.exe: appA.exe
command: C:\tools\appA.exe "D:\file.x"

5.5.9.0 - CMD's window is visible
5.2.11 - CMD's window is hidden

I know about these workarounds but they don't answer my problem:
- pclose(popen("start /B ". $app1 . " \"" . $fpath . "\"", "r"));
=> briefly opens the cmd window and closes
- $WshShell = new COM("WScript.Shell"); $oExec = $WshShell->Run...
=> didn't run it, but it's WScript, I want PHP only

So why and what to set or did something unsettable change in PHP's engine
and there's no solution besides the workarounds? 		 	   		  
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