title: Hiding MS Access interface when scripting with msaccess.exe
body: <p>I'm compacting a lot of MDB files on the command line by scripting with msaccess.exe, e.g.:</p>
  
  <pre><code>&gt; msaccess.exe example.mdb /compact
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>When this runs, the Access UI appears for a moment. I'd like to prevent the UI from appearing at all.</p>
  
  <p>I'm using Access 2013, in case it might matter.</p>
  
  <p>I've searched for an exhaustive command line parameter reference and only found <a href="http://support.microsoft.com/kb/209207" rel="nofollow">this MS Support KB article</a> among several similar pages, all with essentially the same info and none mentioning any version of Access newer than 2003.</p>
  
  <p>Of the parameters listed at the above-linked article, I tried <code>/nostartup</code> and <code>/runtime</code>, but neither did the trick.</p>
  
  <p><strong>How can the Access UI be suppressed when running msaccess.exe on the command line?</strong></p>