
The Startup folder above is for your user account only. Note also that there is actually a second Startup folder. This will give you a lovely tile on your Start Menu, like so:

Then, right-click the Startup folder, and choose Pin to Start: You can do this either by clicking on “Programs” in the address bar, or by clicking the up arrow to the left of the address bar. If you’d rather have a link on the Start Menu, first you need to go up one folder level. Now you have a Quick Access link to the Startup folder. The first is to use the Pin to Quick Access button: There are two easy ways to “bookmark” this folder. This folder is where you add or remove shortcuts to programs to make them run (or not run) at startup. That will show you the following folder, which is the Startup folder where some of your startup programs are launched automagically: To find the Startup folder, the quickest way is to do the following: Try the same trick to locate the Startup folder, and you get… nothing! All you had to do was click Start, and type “Startup”. The Startup folder contains shortcuts to programs that run when you start up Windows.īack in the olden days of Windows 7, you could easily find the Startup folder.
