Run tasks in the background with powershell. This was inspired by the "&" functionality of bash.

powershell-bg-task

function bg() 
{
	if ($args.length -lt 0) 
	{
		Write-Output "No parameters specified";
		return;
	}

	if ($args.length -gt 1)
	{
		$arguments = $args | select -skip 1;
		Start-Process -NoNewWindow $args[0] -ArgumentList $arguments;
		return;
	}
	
	Start-Process -NoNewWindow $args[0];
}