Windows 10: How To Automaticaly Start A Program Minimized

Thank you very much for this detailed explanation. Another solution Bree found was to add the argument "/background" in task scheduler.

Kind regards
Chris

 

There was a mistake in startup, the actual script was missing from command line:
When using with the windows Tas Scheduler, you place
C:\Windows\System32\wscript.exe
as executable and the rest of the parameters as arguments, in my example
/B /NoLogo path\startprocess.vbs "C:\Windows\System32\cmd.exe /C MyStartup.cmd" 7

In the example I initially used the redirection of stdout to a log file (> C:\Temp\Mystartup.log) which is optional of course.

 

I want to start a program (Zotero) minimized, so I tried the bat file approach with a single line:

start /min "C:\Program Files (x86)\Zotero\zotero.exe"

and it failed to start at all. I went to Command Prompt and tried

C:
start /min "Program Files (x86)\Zotero\zotero.exe"

and, surprise, it didn't work there either! It simply creates and minimizes another C: command prompt window (if I start without the /min, it opens the C: window). The only thing that worked was to navigate to the final directory, and then it started, minimized or not. So the final working bat file is:

C:
cd "Program Files (x86)\Zotero"
start /min zotero.exe

I tried the same sequence of tests with another program, and the same thing happened.

I'm happy with the solution, but does anyone have any idea what's going on?

Cheers!

Ed

 

This is by desing of the start program. Start ["title"] program
If the first parameter has quotes, it is assumed title.
Try editing your command to

start /min "" "Program Files (x86)\Zotero\zotero.exe"