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Windows 7 - Startup folder missing
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| 06-02-2011 | #1 |
| | Startup folder missing My Startup folder has disappeared from the Start menu. Any ideas to get it back? |
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| 06-02-2011 | #2 |
| | Hello Ken, The Startup folders are located at the hidden folders below. Do you still have them if you manually navigate to it? C:\Users\(User-Name)\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\Programs\Startup C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\Programs\Startup You can also type the command below in the Start Menu search box and press enter to open the user-name location above. shell:startup |
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| 06-02-2011 | #3 |
| | Thanks Brink. I navigated to the first link and found it's 'disabled' I tried right-clicking on it and going into 'Properties' but couldn't see a way to 'enable' it. Would deleting the word 'disabled' do it ? C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\Programs\Startup takes me to an empty folder. I can get to 'startup' from 'msconfig' OK Last edited by kenC; 06-02-2011 at 04:35 PM.. Reason: Adding info |
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| 06-02-2011 | #4 |
| | Ken, I'm not sure what you mean by "disabled". Could you post a screenshot of this? |
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| 06-03-2011 | #5 |
| | As requested |
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| 06-03-2011 | #6 |
| | Thats just a folder named "~Disabled" ....Whatever software you were using to manage the startup folder created that. |
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| 06-03-2011 | #7 |
| | Ken, ~Disable appears to just be a folder in the Startup folder. Is there anything in ~Disable? If not, are you able to just delete ~Disable? Also, check the Properties of the Startup folder to see if it has the Hidden box checked or not. If so, unhide it. Last edited by Brink; 06-03-2011 at 05:55 PM.. Reason: correction |
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| 06-03-2011 | #8 |
| | Some confusion. The word is 'Disabled' not 'Delete' Anyway, I opened the folder and it just contains a shortcut for Opera browser. The Hidden box is not checked in Startup folder properties. |
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| 06-03-2011 | #9 |
| | See if moving the Opera shortcut in the Startup folder itself (if you wanted Opera to run at startup), then delete the ~Disable folder. |
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| 06-04-2011 | #10 |
| | I deleted the 'Disabled' folder and now have an empty Startup folder. Startup folder is still missing from Start Menu but I think we should leave it at that. It's no big deal and I can get at 'startup' thru 'msconfig' I only have 3 items starting. So, thanks Brink - let's close this one. |
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