Hide application into traybar on startup

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Hi,
I have a winforms application that opens up on Windows startup. However in this case I would like it to stay in the traybar and not to pop up. But if a user starts it, it should pop up. How do I find out how was the application run? if by user or automatically by Windows?

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Posted 21-Jun-12 3:17am

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BillW33 · Accepted Answer · 2012-06-21T03:27:00

Solution 1

For your program shortcut that is run on start up, pass in a parameter like "-autostart" as a command line parameter. For normal user startup you will not pass in this parameter. The program can then easily check its parameters to determine if it should start in the traybar or not.

Posted 21-Jun-12 3:27am

BillW33