Windows 11 Add To Startup Now

He grinned from the couch. “Just don’t ask me to explain the Registry Editor. That’s a story for another rainy day.”

He opened File Explorer and pasted this into the address bar: shell:startup

“Yep. Any file, any app. Just put a shortcut here.” windows 11 add to startup

Sophia pushed her lukewarm coffee aside. “Show me.”

Her teenage nephew, Leo, who was visiting and had an annoying habit of appearing silently behind her, piped up. “You know you can just… add them to startup, right?” He grinned from the couch

She opened Spotify, clicked her profile → Settings, and sure enough, there it was: a dropdown. She set it to “Yes.”

“Microsoft To Do is trickier,” Leo admitted. “Not every app has that toggle. But Windows has a secret weapon: the Startup folder.” Any file, any app

She took a sip of coffee. Lukewarm. Again.