When the regular BOINC Manager is started either manually or via the Window Startup folder to always launch every time a user session is started, you can pass a number of instructions or arguments shown in this screen shot. Image:Boincmanager startup coding.png Caveat: It only works if the shortcut is set to open in a normal window. On Max or Min it will do that instead! The boincargs option does not work. Do not attempt to use this option.