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How do programs that don't appear in the startup folder auto-execute on startup?


Just out of curiosity I was wondering how this is done. I know you can probably manually make a program startup using windows scheduler, but for something download from the interwebs, such as Discord, how does it autonomously give itself the ability to run on startup without actually being in the startup folder?


Solution

  • I found the answer elsewhere on this site, here is the link and a quote https://stackoverflow.com/a/20781275/9546874

    Add a new startup application Open your registry and find the key [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run].

    For each program you want to start automatically create a new string value using a descriptive name, and set the value of the string to the program executable.

    For example, to automatically start Notepad, add a new entry of "Notepad"="c:\windows\notepad.exe".