close console after VBS script executes - batch-file

I have a multi screen computers system. Once in a while, for a reason I don't understand, the dialog boxes are on the wrong monitor. For instance, I'll have a program running in monitor A and an OK box will open in monitor D. This is very frustrating.
I found a VBS script called "PositionDialogs.vbs" found here: https://www.realtimesoft.com/ultramon/scripts/
Const SNAP_TO_MONITOR = False 'set this to True to ensure dialogs aren't placed between two monitors
Const INTERVAL = 2 'number of seconds the script waits before enumerating open windows again
Set sys = CreateObject("UltraMon.System")
Set wnd = CreateObject("UltraMon.Window")
Set wndParent = CreateObject("UltraMon.Window")
'create the two maps used to store positioned windows
Set arrAdd = CreateObject("Scripting.Dictionary")
Set arrLookup = CreateObject("Scripting.Dictionary")
Do While True
'enumerate all application windows
For Each w In wnd.GetAppWindows(True)
If w.HWndParent <> 0 Then
wndParent.HWnd = w.HWndParent
move = True
If arrLookup.Exists(w.HWnd) = True Then move = False
arrAdd.Add w.HWnd, 0
If move = True Then
If SNAP_TO_MONITOR = False Then
If w.Monitor <> wndParent.Monitor Then
w.Monitor = wndParent.Monitor
w.ApplyChanges 1 + 2 'WNDCHANGE_RESIZE_TO_FIT + WNDCHANGE_CLIP_TO_WORKSPACE
End If
Else
Set parentMon = sys.Monitors(wndParent.Monitor - 1)
parentLeft = parentMon.WorkLeft
parentTop = parentMon.WorkTop
parentRight = parentLeft + parentMon.WorkWidth
parentBottom = parentTop + parentMon.WorkHeight
dlgLeft = w.Left
dlgTop = w.Top
dlgRight = dlgLeft + w.Width
dlgBottom = dlgTop + w.Height
If dlgLeft < parentLeft Then
w.Left = parentLeft
ElseIf dlgRight > parentRight Then
w.Left = parentRight - w.Width
End If
If dlgTop < parentTop Then
w.Top = parentTop
ElseIf dlgBottom > parentBottom Then
w.Top = parentBottom - w.Height
End If
w.ApplyChanges 0
End If
End If
End If
Next
'swap maps, then clear arrAdd. this way we don't have entries for windows which no longer exist
Set temp = arrLookup
Set arrLookup = arrAdd
Set arrAdd = temp
Set temp = Nothing
arrAdd.RemoveAll
WScript.Sleep INTERVAL * 1000
Loop
that will move the dialog box to whatever monitor called it.
I have it running on Windows startup using a batch file, and it runs as a process. My problem is that the console window that shows doesn't go away unless I click the X to close it.
The bath files looks like this:
wscript PositionDialogs.vbs
exit
I assume there is something I can add to the script to make it close after it loads itself into memory? If so, what?

aschipf was correct.
I made the batch file
start PositionDialogs.vbs
exit
(used START instead of WSCRIPT) and it closed as expected, while the process still ran in task manager

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