Today, he give us a new kind of paper that don’t hesitate to be outrageously erroneous ! used to be a useful, and interesting blog….īut since some time, Shaun is publishing papers that are more or less (and very often are ONLY) advertising for Microsoft. Now that you know where to look for the startup folder, you can control which programs run or don't run when you start your computer. While the settings menu works, this method is more effective. You can either add program shortcuts to this folder to start a program at startup or remove a shortcut to stop a program starting when your computer starts. This will open the startup folder and you will see various program shortcuts and folders.

For all users, type 'shell:common startup' (again without quotes) in the search box and press enter. You should type 'shell:startup' (without the quotes) in the search box. To begin, open the run menu by pressing Windows +R. One is for your personal account and the other is for all users that use the system. The startup folder can be found in two locations. You can toggle all apps that you want to switch on or off at startup. If you're looking to stop certain apps from running when you start your computer, you should go to the startup apps screen in settings.

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