Some Workstations Launch Application Minimized (to Task Bar)

[drosenkranz]

I have a Visual Basic 5.0 application. 3 out of the 40 users installed have their application launch directly to the Task Bar as minimized- the other 37 launch to the screen as intended. What caused the 3 to launch minimized?

This (Main) application is actually launched by another application (Check4Update) that uses the SHELL command to run it. This is an EXE calling the second EXE via the Shell Command.

It occurs on both Win 95 & Win 98 machines. Is the unintended minimized launch of the application (to the taskbar) on those 3 users a Pol Edit setting on their machine?
The 2nd mouse gets the cheese.

 

[Alt255]

You might want to change the first form's StartUpPosition property to CenterOwner and see if that helps.

Alt255@Vorpalcom.Intranets.com
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