At 02:45 PM 10/20/01 -0500, Barry Aronson wrote the following: >Hello Listers! I ran across a neat little program that not only allows >programs to be launched at Windows startup but also allows you to choose >how long each program will take away from the processor and order your >programs the way you want them to start. Anyway suffice it to say, as >Gerry Boyd always says, "never install beta programs" on your only >drive. Well something happened and now a couple of my programs open up >fully maximized instead of running minimized in the task tray. > >Does anyone know what or if the command line options or switches are >commanding a program to be minimized? The program I am having problems >with is; MS Intellimouse driver version 3.2. The file's name is >Mousex32.exe. I had no trouble like this until I installed Startup >Delayer from r2 Studio. I do like the program but it tends sporadically >to ignore the minimization option in its program editing feature of a >particular startup item. > >None of this is life or death but it is annoying to deal with at startup >and is the only file that currently does this on my desktop. > >Are there any Universal Windows command line options databases that I can >research or even programming options that can be employed. "/l" does not >work nor will "/minimize". I realize that programs are written by many >different developers and use different programming language to create >software but maybe there is Universal command options for minimization. > >Would someone of you help me out here?
For a program to run minimized in the system tray, the programmer would have to write the Windows program using the Shell_NotifyIcon() API as well as some others (HWND, WM_GETICON, etc.) http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/shellcc/pla tform/Shell/Functions/Shell_NotifyIcon.asp Therefore, no universal command. -- Gerry Boyd ============= PCWorks Mailing List ================= Don't see your post? Check our posting guidelines & make sure you've followed proper posting procedures, http://pcworkers.com/rules.htm Contact list owner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Unsubscribing and other changes: http://pcworkers.com =====================================================
