Is it possible to create a shortcut to a Window console app that starts hidden?

Is it possible to create a shortcut to a Window console app that starts hidden? I'd like to start a console app upon startup, but I'd like it not to clutter the taskbar with a cmd.exe item. The options I have when editing a shortcut are only "Normal window", "Minimized", and "Maximized". I faintly remember some Windows version having "Hidden" as an option. I'm using Windows 2008.
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Guest [Entry]

I've had this problem too, I wrote a small app that does this: http://miffthefox.googlepages.com/silentcmd.

Guest [Entry]

"According to this page from the MSDN setting intWindowStyle (one of the arguments to WScript.Shell.Run) to 0

Hides the window and activates another window.

Though it also states:

intWindowStyle
Optional. Integer value indicating the appearance of the
program's window. Note that not all
programs make use of this information."