It's completely inconsistent. At first, I had it in the Startup folder, told it to run minimized. It worked about half the time. So I removed it from there and just started it manually after I'd ...
Hold on. Don’t just reboot your Windows 7 PC. I realize that rebooting is the go-to solution when a program won’t shut down, or the system starts dragging or acting wonky, but there is another way.