uTorrent not starting as "minimized" even though settings have been set appropriately

Use the Minimize to tray option in the UI Settings section, it has the side-effect of starting minimized (to the tray):

Make a shortcut to utorrent, then right click on that shortcut, and click properties. Click next to "Run:" and set the dropdown to "minimized", then click apply. When you open that shortcut, it will open minimized.

Edit your uTorrent shortcut or entry in the Registry that launches uTorrent and you want minimized.

At the end of the path including the uTorrent.exe file, add:

 /MINIMIZED

That's a space, then /MINIMIZED.

Thanks for /MINIMIZED parameter, it works perfectly (parameters must be separated each other with a space, and also from command with a space).

Also you can run it from command line with ...full_path...\uTorrent.exe /MINIMIZED or if you have its path in the %PATH% variable with just WIN+R, uTorrent /MINIMIZED.

To avoid problems with spaces on paths, on the shortcut add " before and after de exe, so it looks like "..._full_path...\file.exe" /parameter1 /parameter2 ...and_so_on...