Create an splash screen before launching Apache and MySQL for Windows

Maybe this is a silly question but as a web developer this is the first time I'm in need of programming something to run in Windows rather on a web server.

I was asked to make a CD/DVD presentation which can search within a database. At first I thought about Server2Go but it seems it has a lot issues and it didn't have any updates in years. So I made my "own" portable server that will launch Apache with PHP and MySQL.

Launching these is made by simple vbs script called from the autorun.inf file on the root folder. The problem is that since in some computers lauching them from a CD may take some time I would like to add an splash screen for the user to know something is beeing run or executed.

First I solved the problem with an HTA app but it gave some errors in non updated systems. This HTA app will automatically close when it detects mysqld.exe and httpd.exe were running and thats the behaviour I would like to reproduce but in an stand alone executable file.

Any advice is welcome. Thanks in advance.