Right-press the desktop and choose New \ Shortcut.
In the location box, just punch in taskmgr and hit next.
Now change the drop-down menu under Run to say “Minimized” and then exit the dialog.
Hopefully this will help somebody else as well.
Make a Shortcut to Start Task Manager in Minimized Mode
This morning an email came in from the very friendly reader Gordy, who asked if it was possible to automatically start up Task Manager in minimized mode when booting the machine... so this article is for him, and hopefully it'll help somebody else as well.
