Add Programs, Files, and Folders to System Startup in Windows

How to Add Programs, Files, and Folders to System Startup in Windows

Many programs in Windows add themselves to system startup when you install them, allowing them to automatically start up when you boot your computer. You can also have other programs automatically start and files and folders automatically open when Windows starts.

This should work in Windows 10, 8, 8.1, 7, or even Vista.

We showed you how to disable startup programs in Windows. Now, we’ll show you how to add programs, files, and folders to system startup, or the “Startup” folder, so they automatically start or open when you boot your computer.

To add a program to the “Startup” folder, we will use a shortcut from the desktop. As an example, we will add the program Sizer to system startup, since we use that often to resize Windows for screenshots.NOTE: If there is no shortcut on the desktop for the program you want to add, we will show you later in this article how to create a shortcut in the “Startup” folder.

To copy a shortcut on the desktop, right-click on the shortcut and select “Copy” from the popup menu.

Open the “Run” dialog box by pressing the Windows key + R. Type “shell:startup” (without the quotes) in the “Open” edit box and click “OK.”

In the right pane of the Windows Explorer window, right-click on the empty space and select “Paste” from the popup menu.

The shortcut is placed in the “Startup” directory.

If the shortcut you want to add to the “Startup” directory is not available on the desktop, you can create a shortcut for the program in the directory. To create a new shortcut, right-click on an empty area in the right pane of the “Startup” directory in Windows Explorer. Select “New” from the popup menu and then select “Shortcut” from the submenu.

On the first screen of the “Create Shortcut” dialog box, click “Browse.”

On the “Browse for Files or Folders” dialog box, navigate to the directory for the program you want to add to system startup, select the “.exe” file, and click “OK.”

The path to the program’s executable file is added to the “Type the location of the item:” edit box. Click “Next.”

Enter a name for the shortcut in the “Type a name for this shortcut:” edit box and click “Finish.”

The next time you start up Windows the program you added to the “Startup” directory that program will automatically start.

You can also add shortcuts to files and folders (using the same procedure described above) to the “Startup” directory and they will automatically open when Windows starts.

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