I'm sure there used to be an option in the settings to start minimized, if there really wasn't than I must be imagining things. I know the old look version of the program used to start minimuzed and I don't recall manually modifying the shortcut or registry to make it do that, pretty sure it had an option. And no this is my home laptop, no GPOs enabled that would cause anything like this. edit - I will go ahead and try it again, it's been a while since trying it probably about 6 months or so, I just updated to the new 2.0 this morning so maybe it'll work now, still should probably be added to settings, just a suggestion.