diff --git a/docs/changelog/2728.bugfix.rst b/docs/changelog/2728.bugfix.rst
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..1040fd4d9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/docs/changelog/2728.bugfix.rst
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+no longer create `()` output in console during activation of a virtualenv by .bat file.
diff --git a/src/virtualenv/activation/batch/activate.bat b/src/virtualenv/activation/batch/activate.bat
index d383de073..3e34ee4db 100644
--- a/src/virtualenv/activation/batch/activate.bat
+++ b/src/virtualenv/activation/batch/activate.bat
@@ -1,4 +1,5 @@
 @REM This file is UTF-8 encoded, so we need to update the current code page while executing it
+@echo off
 @for /f "tokens=2 delims=:." %%a in ('"%SystemRoot%\System32\chcp.com"') do (
     @set _OLD_CODEPAGE=%%a
 )