Opening multiple programs asynchronously

Hi /prog/, I'm working on a networked program that has a server and clients.  Due to this, I often find it tedious to start the server and several clients to test something.  I'm looking for a simple easy way to write a program that opens the server and the clients for easy testing.  If I were on *nix it would write a simple C program with a couple forks(), but alas, I'm developing on windows and I don't know much about windows threading. Can someone help me out?

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My experience with windows batch files has always been that they will execute a program, then wait for it to exit before executing the next.  What command makes them execute without waiting for it to exit?
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Yea I don't really know unix shell scripting, the syntax of some of much of it looks a bit hairy, and I know I won't use it enough to remember it.  Easier to go with what I know ya know?