Windows 10 Startup Shortcut is not Launching

The White Knight

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I followed the instructions here http://www.ampercent.com/autostart-programs-after-system-boots-up-in-windows-10/13255/ and it was added successfully but upon a reboot to test it the program did not launch.

I've tried this before using a more complicated method and it also did not work. I don't know why Win10 can't do something so simple.
 
it might be that there is a typo somewhere, but that should give error message. (at least in event viewer if not on screen) It also seems that windows 10 has tried to move from start-up folder to registry for most things.
Alternative choice is to add it to windows registry.
Code:
Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run]
"Firefox"="C:\\Program files (x86)\\Mozilla Firefox\\firefox.exe"

note the requirement for double backslashes instead of singles on path.
Also that runs only once you log in as the user that added said registry key.
if you want it to be as "anyone who logs in" then you need to add it to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE instead.
 

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I just tried adding the backslashes manually into the string in the startup folder shortcut and it did not work. Then I added the string manually in the location you showed and it still won't launch both with single and double backslashes yet the application launches fine when I click it manually.

What gives?
 

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There are 2 versions of the application that I can launch. One is Admin and the other is without but if I try to launch the Admin one manually or via startup it gives me the error:

"Administrator rights required. Right-click and select run-as administrator or edit the shortcut properties. See release notes."

I only use the admin shortcut to launch it and when I try to set it to auto start with windows nothing at all happens. UAC is off. So windows is trying to do it at least but failing completely when it's the admin shortcut.
 
shortcuts don't need double backslashes, registry entries need it if you add them through running .reg file
manually adding the keys to registry doesn't need them.

But that all is bit moot point since it doesn't launch and you tried both ways. Only possible other explanation that I can think of is that it needs some special permissions/security/pre-requisites like .net stuff that disallow it from auto-running right away.

There are 3rd party apps that let you add/change the start-up delay if that is what matters but.. that is still just pure guessing since name of said program is not mentioned and thus researching why it wont run is impossible.

Edit: was posting this when you added the 2nd reply so this didn't take that into account.
as error points out, you might need to run it as admin or delay it so that it can actually use your permissions.

Edit2: It is also possible that since you are using shortcut to run a shortcut to run a program it "loses" the permissions along the way. (or that is the feeling I have from reading your post)
To which a fix could be to copy the original shortcut to startup and then running it as administrator
 

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It's BlueIris and i'm using the actual .exe in the installation directory. How do I set it to run as administrator or easily delay launch? I remember there was an add on paramater for this such as -silent which is the only one I have on it now.