I think that this dedicated server should have a GUI as said (i do like jerry's idea of an .ini file more tho). But I think that if it would have the settings in an .ini file, than the console should sit on the taskbar (or whatever it's called down where the clock is) and run in the background. The only way to change settings is to run the GUI which would be ran separately and it would command the console. Why would you do such a crazy thing? So you could put the dedicated server in startup and it wouldn't bother you when your computer starts up. It would just sit in the background and run. And you could always unload it by right clicking and clicking quit or exit or something.