Windows 8: Where did the Startup folder go?
I am a long time user of the Start menu’s “Startup” folder to run several apps that I want to launch after on logon. With the new Start menu now not showing this folder, I decided to figure out how to accomplish this task.
I go into this already knowing the location this folder sits on disk. It is the merger of the following two folders:
- C:\Users\<username>\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\Programs\Startup
- C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\Programs\StartUp
My question is how to get a shortcut to my favorite startup apps into these folders without having to navigate to these deep directories.
The best solution I have found for this is the following Shell commands that can be run from the run box (WIN+R):
- shell:startup
- shell:common startup
This will do.