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The windows that I am trying to minimise are already running so start /min is not an option.

rowanphilip
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    what have you tried on your own? Please read [tour](http://stackoverflow.com/tour) and [how to ask](http://stackoverflow.com/help/how-to-ask) – elzooilogico Sep 15 '16 at 09:50
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It can be done with an vbscript hybrid.

@echo off

set "lookFor=Calculator"

for /f "tokens=2 delims=," %%A in ('tasklist /nh /fo csv /fi "WINDOWTITLE eq %lookfor%"') do set "pid=%%~A"

>"%TEMP%\_edit.vbs" (
  echo/Set oShell = CreateObject("WScript.Shell"^)
  echo/oShell.AppActivate %pid%
  echo/WScript.Sleep 500
  echo/oShell.SendKeys "%% (n)" ' minimize (Alt+SpaceBar,n^)
)

start /B cmd /C "CScript //nologo //E:vbs "%TEMP%\_edit.vbs" & rem del /F /Q "%TEMP%\_edit.vbs" 2>NUL"

exit/B
elzooilogico
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