how to force an application window to startup in a minimised windo

G

Guest

Is there a place where I can specify, for a particular program, that it
should minimise the window at start up time? TIA....Greg
 
J

JS

Check the program's properties setting, in the 'Shortcut tab you should see
a 'Run' option with a pull-down list to allow you to select the Window size.

JS
 
G

Guest

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bloke53


JS said:
Check the program's properties setting, in the 'Shortcut tab you should see
a 'Run' option with a pull-down list to allow you to select the Window size.

JS



I have the same question, after having already set the run option in properies to minimize some time ago, but it made not the slightest difference, and the program still starts in a normal window. Spent hours looking for this solution. Several attempts to get help from microsoft but they don't want to know, they keep transferring me away to sources that i've already established cannot or will not help
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G

Guest

I found it works if the program is in the startup folder. But if the program
starts because it is setup that way in msconfig, then I don't know how you
would setup the minimise function, since the shortcut tab is not apparent. I
haven't tried it yet but I thought I would remove the program from msconfig
startup and add it to programs/startup as a workaround.
 
G

Guest

JS, I did as you say to the properties of the shortcut in the
Pragrams/Startup list but it doesn't work. I thought the setting might be
over-ridden by another setting so I went to the Startup tab after running
MSconfig and found that both the program I want to start minimised and the
Program/Startup shortcut were marked as running at startup. So I un-ticked
the program and left the shortcut ticked. Now only the shortcut operates, but
it does not minimise the window at startup.

Any suggestions?
TIA .... Greg
 
D

dobey

What's the program?

It's possible the authors have anticipated someone trying to minimise their
program and prevented it.
 

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