# System Startup opens Mp3tag in maximized windows instead of minimized form

**URL:** https://community.mp3tag.de/t/system-startup-opens-mp3tag-in-maximized-windows-instead-of-minimized-form/47864
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [February 14, 2020, 12:53pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/system-startup-opens-mp3tag-in-maximized-windows-instead-of-minimized-form/47864 "2020-02-14T12:53:32Z")
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### Author: ![Zerow](https://community.mp3tag.de/user_avatar/community.mp3tag.de/zerow/32/11379_2.png) [@Zerow](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Zerow)
#### Post date: [February 10, 2021, 6:53pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/system-startup-opens-mp3tag-in-maximized-windows-instead-of-minimized-form/47864/23 "2021-02-10T18:53:28Z")

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> [@Zerow](#):
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> There is something wrong with Windows [said its every user at some point...]  
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> And I have an argument for that  
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Yes ladies and gentlemen - that is correct

And I finally have an apparently good enough and relatively easy

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> workaround to a workaround  
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to utilize as part of my `C:\Users\YOUR-USER-NAME\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\Programs\Startup`  
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I took the `-ExecutionPolicy Bypass -File` part from the Task I was exploring previously and I added it to a LNK file. So now in the folder `Startup` I have a shortcut leading to that PS1 file with code

> Start-Process Mp3tag -ArgumentList '"M:\My Playlist.m3u8"'  
> $wshell = New-Object -ComObject wscript.shell;  
> $wshell.AppActivate('\*Mp3Tag')  
> SLEEP 0  
> $wshell.SendKeys('(%(" "(n)))')

with the parameters of that LNK file set to

> Target: C:\Windows\SysWOW64\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0\powershell.exe -ExecutionPolicy Bypass -File "C:\Various Scripts\X.ps1"  
> Start in: "C:\Various Scripts"  
> Run: Normal window

**And it works** ; in that after entering Windows Mp3tag will be executed by `X.ps1` file [which was a problem - to automatically execute PS1 file and not just open it for editing] with the particular playlist will being loaded to Mp3tag. Although the window of Mp3tag will be open maximized, it will be **somehow** opened under [behind] the window of FreeCommander, which is set to open also in a maximized form and also by the means of having in folder `Start` a LNK file leading to its EXE

And I said **somehow** , because there is no logic here. The `C:\Users\YOUR-USER-NAME\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\Programs\Startup` apparently works by alphabetical order- whatever is at the top will be loaded [executed] first. So `FreeCommander XE.lnk` is executed first and only after it an another process happens- of the `X.lnk`. So Mp3tag should be placed on top of FreeCommander window - but it is not. And yes I have made an experiment- by renaming `X.lnk` to `! X.lnk` I made this file appear above `FreeCommander XE.lnk` in the folder `Start`- and thus made it to be executed as the first item from `Start`. And the result was that Mp3tag was opened with focus [at the front] - and this is the exact opposite of what should be happening [because FreeCommander window should be placed over it]

But what is more, when I went back to re-naming it as `X.lnk` but also changed its parameter `Run:` from `Normal window` to `Minimized` it also started running in front of FreeCommander window. So once again ladies and gentlemen the minimized parameter from "Start" folder was ignored - apparently on the account of being evoked from `Startt` folder; plus it broke the workaround  
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All in all, **this method with LNK file is also better than TaskSchduler approach because it does not create a brief appearance of the Mp3tag window** - it stays hidden behind FreeCommander [while the TaskScheduler method made a quick flash of Mp3tag window]  
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So for now this seems to be the solution

But first it is applicable only in peculiar circumstances [of having some third party software auto-running concurrently which happens to be able to hide Mp3tag window]. And secondly I simply do not like the idea to be forced to

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> relay on this workaround to a workaround, as it is could somehow break itself  
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And so, if someone has other solutions / ideas - please post them here, even in a distant future

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