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    Startup items are not starting up with Windows

    Discussion in 'Windows OS and Software' started by octavia, Mar 5, 2008.

  1. octavia

    octavia Notebook Evangelist

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    I have Vista Home Premium in my HP laptop. A couple of days ago, I had to do a system recovery and ever since, the programs in that folder don't start up.

    I tried several things. I had first copied the Startup folder from the All Programs menu to the pinned menu at the top of the Start Menu. Maybe I 'broke' something right then, but both folders have the same path: C:\Users\MYUSERNAME\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\Programs

    I tried adding (dragging, copy-pasting) shortcuts directly to All Programs>Startup and Start menu > Startup. I tried creating shortcuts, I also copied the shortcuts directly, from the actual Start menu shortcuts and from the actual program folder.

    I'm not talking about the Startup items that include system tray icons, I'm talking about the "very easy to customize" Startup folder:

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    I spent 2 hours on the phone with an HP technician trying to figure out what was wrong with it. We tried several things but nothing worked. For the record, I don't know if this is a problem or the default behavior. On the General tab of the System Configuration window, I checked Selective startup, but when I restart the computer, the Normal startup is selected.

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    I don't know what else should I do :confused:
     
    octavia, Mar 5, 2008
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  2. ttupa

    ttupa Tech Elitist NBR Reviewer

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    Try starting up in Safe Mode using the F8 key. Then scan your computer for virus/spyware infections. Even if you did a recovery, if you did not reformat the drive, your computer could still be infected.
     
    ttupa, Mar 5, 2008
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  3. swarmer

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    What are you trying to start up? If you have UAC on, and the program requires admin privileges, it may not start.
     
    swarmer, Mar 5, 2008
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  4. vinumsv

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    Also Check Windows Defender it might block from AutoStarting
     
    vinumsv, Mar 5, 2008
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  5. pixelot

    pixelot Notebook Acolyte

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    Do any of these programs have a 'start with Windows' option in them? If so, check that, and see if that adds it to the Startup folder, and if that program works...
     
    pixelot, Mar 5, 2008
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  6. flipfire

    flipfire Moderately Boss

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    Just go to your task scheduler and Create the tasks from there. Make it run at log in on the highest privilages.
     
    flipfire, Mar 5, 2008
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  7. octavia

    octavia Notebook Evangelist

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    Did a clean installation and, oh surprise! it works now.
     
    octavia, Mar 10, 2008
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