See this...
How can I make a script that opens terminal windows and executes commands in them? - Ask Ubuntu[
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A few things to keep in mind:
0. When you run the terminal it might close right after finishing it's work.
1. You have to make sure you have a path to the terminal in your env vars.
2. There are different terminal emulators, use the one your system has installed.
I happen to be on a Windows 7 machine right now (I can boot to Linux but I'm in the middle of backing up my disks)... this works from a cygwin terminal (mintty is the terminal emulator in cygwin):
mintty &