I've looked at other scripts on the forum for iTunes (like this one) and tried some variation on those scripts but it doesn't seem to make a difference. From the forums ( this thread), I figured out that another option would be to use the PostMessage command, but for the life of me, I can't interpret the output from Winspector Spy to write a working postmessage call. My guess is that iTunes has some internal statuses that get messed up by the winshow command. It only starts to work if I move from the music or playlists to the iTunes store tab and back. The maximize button work, close works but not minimize. Now if iTunes is running, the application does come to the foreground - but here's the funny part. Now the first part of the script checks for iTunes already running and if it finds the process, it restores the application.

So I set about creating an AHK script to check launch iTunes and the plugins. However, I had installed iTunes on my PC recently along with a bunch of plugins and was getting bugged by the fact that each plugin had to be launched separately. Long time user of AHK but I've generally relied on the generosity of others to compensate for my total lack of programming skillz iTunes has this feature built in on windows if you right click the taskbar, toolbars/itunes.

Itunes minimize to taskbar