The reason for ShowWindow opose to your FreeConsole is because if you start up
cmd.exe and do syncthing.exe -no-output it actually hides the existing cmd.exe
window oppose to opening a separate window and then hiding it, which keeps the
existing console hanging on syncthing.exe running.
I tried playing around with compiling as GUI, then given the option is not present
allocating a console, and redirecting the std streams to the new console, but that
seems ugly as I'd have to make quite a few calls. But that does get of the initial
flash.
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