Why would I kill each task? I just want to hide the minimized window completely, but still have it running so I can just switch to it.

The goal is to just not have them show up minimized, but...

I think you may be a little confused here. I have changed out explorer.exe to cmd.exe in the registry. My computer at this point loads cmd.exe instead of explorer.exe so there is no taskbar at all. ...

I am going with a minimalist design. Just trying to figure out how to remove the minimized items on the screen. If I could just disable them or have them not show and alt + tab between screens.
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