OK Mike. Thanks for allowing me that little respite.
Here’s what I did and what I accomplished:
My settings in the General Options Menu were:
Start minimized
Retrieve Forecasts
Check for New Versions
Auto Retry Every Minute…
First I disabled my StartEd utility
Then I exited WWL
Clicked on WWL in the programs menu
WWL started minimized without the weather window on my desktop
Second I rebooted my computer
WWL did not start
Clicked on WWL in the programs menu
WWL started minimized without the weather window on my desktop
Then I unchecked Retrieve Forecasts and rebooted
WWL did not start
Clicked on WWL in the programs menu
WWL started minimized without the weather window on my desktop
Then I checked “Start WWL when windows starts” as well as checked “Start Minimized” in the Options menu. Both boxes were checked.
I rebooted
WWL started minimized without the weather window on my desktop
So in order to start WWL minimized when my computer starts I needed to check both those boxes.
It is my recollection that in the old WW free version I only needed to check “Start Minimized” to get the icon without the window.
Now this has got me feeling like a complete idiot.
I’ve used the WW free version for years and thought that I knew everything about it.
Sorry if I wasted your time with these forum posts.
Perhaps in the next upgrade you should mention that in order to start WWL minimized on computer startup both of these boxes should be checked.
Thanks, Mike, for bearing with me.
And thank goodness StartEd Lite was free.