
However if you have a shortcut to Microsoft Word itself, you will. For example if you have a shortcut to a Microsoft Word document on your desktop you will not see the Run option. This works on programs, and shortcuts to program, but not documents or other files.You’ll need to check with that particular program if there’s a way to alter this behavior. The upshot is that they effectively ignore this setting. By that I mean that when they start, they explicitly decide whether they want to be minimized, maximized or “normal”. Naturally, you could also select “minimized” to have the program start that way instead.Īs I said, there are a couple of caveats: The program should now start up maximized. Note the item labeled Run that’s set to “ Normal Window“.


Right click on the shortcut or menu item you use to start the program: And while there are a couple of caveats, there’s actually a fairly simple way to make this happen for most programs.
