PopMan

I think i must be going blind but can somebody tell me where the setting to start popman in its minimized to the tray state is. Every time I run it it shows the main window

I don't think there's any particular option for that. It depends on how you close the program: if, at exit, the program window is showing, it'll start with the program window showing. If you close PM from the systray (right mouse click), it'll start in the systray. That's how it works for me anyway.

can somebody tell me where the setting to start popman in its minimized to the tray state is

You have to start PopMan using the commandline option "-minimize".

=> C:\Program Files\PopMan\PopMan.exe -minimize

Alternatively, if you start PopMan with an shortcut, you can change the shortcut's "Execute" property to "Minimized" in the shortcut's properties dialog.