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Automatic opening of applications on startup
Dear All,
I recently switched from MacOS 9 to Windows XP. In MacOS 9 I could easily have applications open themselves automatically on startup by placing an alias of the application in the Startup Items Folder in the System. I am sure the same is possible in Windows XP, but I don't know my way around XP well enough to do that. Worse still, a search in the Windows Help facility under 'application opening on startup', or similar, somes up with zero. Can anyone help, please? Many thanks, Barry |
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Hi Barry,
It's similar. What you want to do is place a shortcut (.lnk) file to the application in the startup folder. There are two, one will start the application for all users: C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Start Menu\Programs\Startup The other will start it only for the specific user: C:\Documents and Settings\user_name\Start Menu\Programs\Startup To create a shortcut, there are several methods. The one I usually use is to open Windows Explorer to that folder, then click file/new/shortcut and browse to the executable for the program that is desired. You can also take existing shortcut icons and simply drag and drop them into those folders, or you can copy/paste them there. There are other more complicated methods as well by creating registry entries in the run keys, but for most people the above will suffice. -- Best of Luck, Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/ Associate Expert - WindowsXP Expert Zone www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/expertzone Windows help - www.rickrogers.org "Barry O'Dwyer" wrote in message ... Dear All, I recently switched from MacOS 9 to Windows XP. In MacOS 9 I could easily have applications open themselves automatically on startup by placing an alias of the application in the Startup Items Folder in the System. I am sure the same is possible in Windows XP, but I don't know my way around XP well enough to do that. Worse still, a search in the Windows Help facility under 'application opening on startup', or similar, somes up with zero. Can anyone help, please? Many thanks, Barry |
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Rick,
Many thanks for that. I followed your excellent instructions, and it worked perfectly. Barry "Rick "Nutcase" Rogers" wrote: Hi Barry, It's similar. What you want to do is place a shortcut (.lnk) file to the application in the startup folder. There are two, one will start the application for all users: C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Start Menu\Programs\Startup The other will start it only for the specific user: C:\Documents and Settings\user_name\Start Menu\Programs\Startup To create a shortcut, there are several methods. The one I usually use is to open Windows Explorer to that folder, then click file/new/shortcut and browse to the executable for the program that is desired. You can also take existing shortcut icons and simply drag and drop them into those folders, or you can copy/paste them there. There are other more complicated methods as well by creating registry entries in the run keys, but for most people the above will suffice. -- Best of Luck, Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/ Associate Expert - WindowsXP Expert Zone www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/expertzone Windows help - www.rickrogers.org "Barry O'Dwyer" wrote in message ... Dear All, I recently switched from MacOS 9 to Windows XP. In MacOS 9 I could easily have applications open themselves automatically on startup by placing an alias of the application in the Startup Items Folder in the System. I am sure the same is possible in Windows XP, but I don't know my way around XP well enough to do that. Worse still, a search in the Windows Help facility under 'application opening on startup', or similar, somes up with zero. Can anyone help, please? Many thanks, Barry |
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