Copyright 2018-21 Avimanyu Bandyopadhyay
UplayStartupMinimize (USM) is a Free and Open Source Software to help you automatically launch Ubisoft game client Ubisoft Connect(formerly Uplay) on Windows startup and minimize it to system tray(similar to Steam and Origin) as soon as it auto-updates and initializes via Ubisoft servers. USM has an auto-update feature that fetches its most recent version whenever Ubisoft Connect receives an update. It will always terminate itself once it has done its work and is not required to be kept running as a background process.
Update: Reverted to v2.1.3 from v3.0 since Ubisoft Connect's own silent launch feature on Windows startup does not work when it gets auto-updated.
a. "Minimize Uplay to system tray when the application window is closed" has to be kept enabled in Uplay's settings.
b. "Launch Uplay when Windows starts" should be kept enabled.
The software that was used to create the USM Installer is called "Inno Setup Compiler" which is also Open Source on GitHub that adds USM to Windows' user startup via:
Name: "{userstartup}\UplayStartupMinimize"; Filename: "{app}\USM.vbs"; WorkingDir: "{app}"
