The CMDfocus application was designed to bring the current console window to the foreground with keyboard focus.

When a batch is running in the background or minimized, and you want to see the results when the job is done, insert CmdFocus followed by PAUSE.

This will bring the console window to your attention, and allow any key to continue the batch (to close the console, for example).

Note: The console window will NOT get the keyboard focus, if Windows is set up to "Prevent applications from stealing focus" (which seems to be the default). You can change this behaviour with MS TweakUI (General/Focus).