Check the documentation for your program (or just experiment with it; e.g., from a Command Prompt). See whether there’s anything you can put on the command line that will cause it to exit immediately. If it displays the GUI even in this mode, run it from a shortcut that has the “Run” control set to “Minimized”:
Another approach is to write a batch file that starts your program minimized (with START /MIN
), waits a few seconds, and then kills it.