I want the option in my app "win32" that will allow the
user to set the program to minimize on startup.
I tryed the ShowWindow(hWnd,"any of the minimize flags")
function, but that just made the program always minimized.
I want to allow the user to click on it in the taskbar and
have it act like normal window. How do I do this?

Ok It was staying minimized because I used ShowWindow at
wm_create. Is there a better message to attach this to? I
Looking for a message at startup of program, but after
creation of window. Something like WM_SHOWWINDOW except
the message is just executed one time.

I'm not sure I understand the question. But if you want to give the user the
option to start the program minimized and also have the window restore
itself when it's "taskbar button" is clicked then create a preference in the
registry or an .ini file. When you start up read the preference. If set call
ShowWindow() with one of SW_MINIMIZE, SW_SHOWMINNOACTIVE, or
SW_SHOWMINIMIZED

Regards,
Will