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The Bat! and Windows Startup, It will not minimize.
 
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I have set The Bat! to load at Windows startup and to minimize to the system tray. However, when Windows starts up it opens The Bat! and displays it. It does not open minimized. Is there a way to set this so it will open in the system tray to start? If I was the only user on this computer it wouldn't be a problem. However, it requires the others to have to close The Bat! in order to continue, and they are finding this to be annoying.
 
 
 
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> and to minimize to the system tray

I don't see that option in my version (3.8.xx).
The start-up is a distinctly seperate option from the
minimize behaviour (when clicking on the minimize or
close buttons).

My suggestion is to uncheck 'run bat when windows
starts', and instead place a shorcut to 'thebat.exe'
in your start-up folder. Using a shortcut you can
supply command line parameters. Eg your 'target'
should be:

"C:\Program Files\theBat!\thebat.exe" /NOLOGO /MINIMIZE

I successfully tested this on a windows 2000 machine,
but I'm not sure how XP start-up works exactly;
hopefully it's the same.
 
 
 
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Well, that was a great idea. However, when I tried changing the command line parameters it said it was not a valid field or target.

It had a problem with /NOLOGO/MINIMIZE
 
 
 
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The only thing I can think of is that maybe you
didn't have the quotes around the url of the file?
Also, ensure there is a space between the parameters.
It works on Win2k. I can't think why it wouldn't work
on other windows versions.

Anyway, you might not need the command line parameters.
Right click the shortcut => properties => run.
Choose 'minimized' rather than 'normal window'.

Hope that does the trick.
 
 
 
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Anyway, you might not need the command line parameters. Right click the shortcut => properties => run. Choose 'minimized' rather than 'normal window'.

No, that didn't work either. I guess it doesn't matter, I have The Bat! on the quick launch tool bar, and it can't connect to the internet when Windows starts up because it takes a few seconds for my computer to connect to the internet.
 
 
 
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Sorry it didn't work. Both methods worked on my PC.
Sounds like a Windows problem rather than the Bat?

If you wanted to pursue it a little further, the next
thing I would try would be a start-up manager: Eg.

http://www.softpedia.com/get/Tweak/System-Tweak/Starter.shtml

http://www.mlin.net/StartupCPL.shtml

(I can't vouch for those programs; they're just the
first free ones I came across).
 
 
 
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Sorry it didn't work. Both methods worked on my PC. Sounds like a Windows problem rather than the Bat?

It might be an issue because it is Windows XP. Plus, I have new computer and they created this computer environment as an NTFS drive. Windows XP is normally a Fat32 drive by default.
 
 
 
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Dr.T.O.Morrow writes:
It had a problem with /NOLOGO/MINIMIZE

You should put a space between the parameters, the above does not work but
/NOLOGO /MINIMIZE
(one space before the second /) works fine on XP SP2
BTW there should be a space between the path enclosed in double quotes and the first parameter too.

The file system has nothing to do with this, and NTFS is the natural choice for XP. I don't see any reason to use an obsolete file system like FAT32 for XP, except probably in some multi-boot 9.x/XP scenarios.
 
 
 
 
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