Steam not starting minimized anymore

[Daniverg]

Anyone else having this problem?

[Jetrospect]

For those of you not using a custom startup shortcut for Steam, this may resolve your issue as it did for me.

1. Go to Steam settings within the Interface section.

2. Set Start Up Location to Library (The -silent parameter in step 7 wasn't working without this selected.)

3. Disable "Run Steam when my computer starts" otherwise you'll get the extra pop-ups on start-up.

4. Open File Explorer, type %appdata% in the address bar, then hit enter.

5. Navigate to ~\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\Programs\Startup\

6. Right click within the Startup folder, hover over New, then click Shortcut.

7. Set the location as your steam.exe path within quotes, space then -silent without quotes after the path ("C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steam.exe" -silent), then click next.

8. Name it whatever you want then click Finish.

9. Restart your computer and test the outcome.

Steam should now start up only in the system tray after Windows starts up.
Hope this helps

[Cyrgaan]

Originally posted by Morphime:

To fix the issue, change your home page to your library instead of the store.
Settings->interface->Home page

Cheers, mate! This works.

[Lemon Zawodowiec]

I hope this gets "fixed" soon...
because I'm starting to crave ungodly levels of violence...

[BuzzDee]

Hey Support! Do your frickin job and fix this problem!

[Fay]

Option for minimized start vanished, please re-add it!!!

[o.O_Überman_O.o]

Originally posted by Jetrospect:

For those of you not using a custom startup shortcut for Steam, this may resolve your issue as it did for me.

1. Go to Steam settings within the Interface section.

2. Set Start Up Location to Library (The -silent parameter in step 7 wasn't working without this selected.)

3. Disable "Run Steam when my computer starts" otherwise you'll get the extra pop-ups on start-up.

4. Open File Explorer, type %appdata% in the address bar, then hit enter.

5. Navigate to ~\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\Programs\Startup\

6. Right click within the Startup folder, hover over New, then click Shortcut.

7. Set the location as your steam.exe path within quotes, space then -silent without quotes after the path ("C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steam.exe" -silent), then click next.

8. Name it whatever you want then click Finish.

9. Restart your computer and test the outcome.

Steam should now start up only in the system tray after Windows starts up.
Hope this helps

Confirmed that this works for me on Windows. I still briefly get the splash screen, but the Steam main window goes instantly to the task tray. Appreciate the post.

If Valve weren't hiring engineering managers straight out of high school. I wouldn't need to go to these lengths. Nice job.

[o.O_Überman_O.o]

Also confirmed for Linux (Ubuntu 22.04).

[Caraitis]

same to me, does not start when windows starts.... so annoying

[Pikota]

Originally posted by Jetrospect:

For those of you not using a custom startup shortcut for Steam, this may resolve your issue as it did for me.

1. Go to Steam settings within the Interface section.

2. Set Start Up Location to Library (The -silent parameter in step 7 wasn't working without this selected.)

3. Disable "Run Steam when my computer starts" otherwise you'll get the extra pop-ups on start-up.

4. Open File Explorer, type %appdata% in the address bar, then hit enter.

5. Navigate to ~\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\Programs\Startup\

6. Right click within the Startup folder, hover over New, then click Shortcut.

7. Set the location as your steam.exe path within quotes, space then -silent without quotes after the path ("C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steam.exe" -silent), then click next.

8. Name it whatever you want then click Finish.

9. Restart your computer and test the outcome.

Steam should now start up only in the system tray after Windows starts up.
Hope this helps

Worked, thanks there you have a gift ;)

[Jetrospect]

Originally posted by Pikota:

Worked, thanks there you have a gift ;)

Glad to help! Thank you as well

[xanScorp]

Same and I have searched through the settings. I am about 5 seconds shy of losing it, decompiling this nonsense to fix it back to how it was.

[adama]

Easy fix until steam fixes the bs is to just remove it from startup apps.

[Nightshade]

Everytime steam opens non minimized with an advert, I copy the game advertised to a textfile called "never buy", and I never have even if I want it