Minimize the Network Render Client?

The network render tool is extremely useful for me, but I cannot get it to minimize on client machines, making it very difficult to have running on machines that people actually use. Does anyone know a way to minimize the client on Windows 8.1? Once client mode is started, you can't click the windows minimize buttons and none of the standard keyboard shortcuts work. What I want is a way for it to run minimized all the time. We have a script that starts it with an affinity set to only use part of the host machines CPU, so it is great to have on several machines on our LAN to speed up rendering time.

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