Automatic opening of applications on startup

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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" <BarryODwyer@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:91A9EED5-0429-4B6F-92B7-82F2F4E28CFC@microsoft.com...
> > 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
>
>
>