Hello,
Do you ever wish for the days when it was easy to add items to your startup process? That’s what thisemail is all about! Windows XP and 7 made it really easy to add an item to your startup folder however, in Windows 8, the “big brains” at Microsoft decided to do-away with the Start menu and that just through a huge monkey wrench into the process.
Adding scripts to the startup is one of the common questions we help with during our AHK Hero calls. We even made a simple tool named AddtoStartup which can help you easily add scripts & programs to your Startup process.
If you’re a little technical you can hit the Windows key and R (to bring up the “Run” window, then type the following to open an explorer window on your startup folder
shell:Startup
If you want to navigate to the startup folder that is shared across all users you would type:
shell:Common startup
Regardless of which one you use, after you have one open, just drag a shortcut to your script (or a program) to those folders and it will then be run every time you boot up Windows.
Additional Resources
- Grab our AHK TaskManager
- Use AHK Script Hub to open, edit, Reload, etc. running scripts
Joe, Isaias, Irfan & Team
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P.S. You might be interested in learning more about how to control Windows. We have an Intro to DOS course that guides you through the basics.❗
