I'm sure there are a lot of examples on the respective forums.Īlso nircmd's documentation says it does support minimizing windows by process like this: nircmd win min process firefox.exe. If everything failed until now, you may want to try a more drastic and unelegant solution: use a (gratis) scripting tool like AutoIt or AutoHotKey to launch the program, wait for the main window to show and then minimize it using their functions. Often such options are not directly available to the user, as they may have been implemented as command line parameters. If the developer was wise or the program is mature enough, you will probably find an option within the application itself, that minimizes it on start. Strangely enough, Windows 10 Calculator is implemented as a "modern" App, so other than having an increased startup time because of this (FFS, a calculator has to load fast!) it will ignore the minimization setting. These programs will probably ignore the above settings. Software built with customized GUI/frameworks/Technologies If that is not the case you can try the other methods below. If the laucher is not really important (maybe if updates can be checked also by the program itself) you could directly set the actual program's executable file as the startup entry for that program.
As a consequence only the launcher would be minimized if you set it to run minimized, leaving the program with a normal window.
For example this is the case of Chromium-based browser (such as Goggle Chrome, Opera, etc), where the launcher checks for updates, installs them and runs the most recent version afterwards. This is to allow tasks to be executed just before running the actual application. Instead an intermediate program, a launcher, is set as the target of shortcuts. If your program is not executed by means of the startup folder in the start menu, you can still replicate the above "start minimized" setting by substituting the file path ( C:\myprogram.exe) with something like this: CMD.EXE /c start /min "" "C:\Windows\notepad.exe" Standard software with external launchers Change the value of Run on the tab Shortcut to Minimized. Right click the icon of the programs in the startup folder, choose Properties. Standard Win32 software and no intermediate launcher It's a matter of if your programs respect that. Windows already has this functionality (more or less)
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