In this Windows 10 guide, we'll walk you through the steps to automatically launch apps, files, folders, and websites on startup to speed up your daily tasks.

You can add apps to startup in Windows 11/10 by adding their shortcuts to the Startup folder. To open the Startup folder, first, open the Run command box, then type shell:startup, and then click OK.

To add a portable app to Windows Startup, open File Explorer and navigate to the portable app’s executable file (.exe). Right-click on the executable and select Send to > Desktop (create shortcut).

That option is no longer available in Windows 10. Instead, you can check out your startup programs in a couple of other ways.

Apps you install on Windows 10 can sometimes configure themselves to run automatically on startup, and they can also configure background services that start every time you boot your computer ...

In Windows 10 or 11, go to Settings > Apps > Startup to view a list of all apps that can start up automatically and determine which ones should be disabled. You can sort the list by name, status ...

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Windows 10 apps configured to autostart on login via RunOnce, Service, or ScheduledTask will still avoid being called out via the new startup app notifications.

Let’s check out the Settings option first. In Windows 10, open Settings > Apps > Startup. Here, you can see a list of all the apps that can start up automatically. The switch indicates a status ...