Start menu missing apps...?

[Kenneth]

Howdy,

I have nearly completed a reinstallation of Win 2000.

There is a certain app that I want to run at startup.

The helpfile describes the process:

To start a program each time you start Windows 2000

Click Start, point to Settings, and then click Taskbar &
Start Menu. Click the Advanced tab, and then click Advanced.
In the Start Menu folder, find the shortcut to the program
you want to start each time you start Windows 2000, and drag
it to the Startup folder.

'Seems simple enough, but here's the hitch:

I have perhaps a dozen apps visible if I click Start |
Programs, but when I look in the Start Menu folder, I see
only three.

What am I missing here? (other than the applications)

Sincere thank for any help deciphering this,

 

[Galen]

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Howdy,

I have nearly completed a reinstallation of Win 2000.

There is a certain app that I want to run at startup.

The helpfile describes the process:

To start a program each time you start Windows 2000

Click Start, point to Settings, and then click Taskbar &
Start Menu. Click the Advanced tab, and then click Advanced.
In the Start Menu folder, find the shortcut to the program
you want to start each time you start Windows 2000, and drag
it to the Startup folder.

'Seems simple enough, but here's the hitch:

I have perhaps a dozen apps visible if I click Start |
Programs, but when I look in the Start Menu folder, I see
only three.

What am I missing here? (other than the applications)

Sincere thank for any help deciphering this,

Bah... Bugger all that... Make a shortcut to the application, drag it to
here:

Click Start button
Click Programs
Click Startup

Just dragging the shortcut there will make it start automatically with
Windows.

--
Galen - MS MVP - Windows (Shell/User & IE)
http://dts-l.org/

"A man should keep his little brain attic stocked with all the
furniture that he is likely to use, and the rest he can put away in the
lumber-room of his library where he can get it if he wants it."

Sherlock Holmes

 

[Kenneth]

In Kenneth <[email protected]> had this to say:

My reply is at the bottom of your sent message:


Bah... Bugger all that... Make a shortcut to the application, drag it to
here:

Click Start button
Click Programs
Click Startup

Just dragging the shortcut there will make it start automatically with
Windows.

Hi Galen,

I should have explained that before looking in the helpfile,
I did just that, but...

For some reason, I could not "drop" the shortcut into the
Startup folder.

No matter where I attempted to drop it, the shortcut
appeared either above, or below, but never in the folder.

Thanks again,

 

[Kenneth]

On Sat, 05 Nov 2005 21:06:46 -0500, Kenneth


Ooops,

Apparently, I was trying to drop it on the word Startup,
rather than into the folder (at that point) marked Empty.

'Time to get some sleep...

Thanks again,

 

[Enkidu]

Howdy,

I have nearly completed a reinstallation of Win 2000.

There is a certain app that I want to run at startup.

The helpfile describes the process:

To start a program each time you start Windows 2000

Click Start, point to Settings, and then click Taskbar &
Start Menu. Click the Advanced tab, and then click Advanced.
In the Start Menu folder, find the shortcut to the program
you want to start each time you start Windows 2000, and drag
it to the Startup folder.

'Seems simple enough, but here's the hitch:

I have perhaps a dozen apps visible if I click Start |
Programs, but when I look in the Start Menu folder, I see
only three.

What am I missing here? (other than the applications)

Sincere thank for any help deciphering this,

You don't want to start all your programs when you start
Windows, do you? The Start->Program menu shows all the
programs that you can run on your computer (roughly). The
Start Menu folder contains only those that start when you
start Windows.

Cheers,

Cliff

 

[Galen]

In Kenneth <[email protected]> had this to say:

My reply is at the bottom of your sent message:

On Sat, 05 Nov 2005 21:06:46 -0500, Kenneth


Ooops,

Apparently, I was trying to drop it on the word Startup,
rather than into the folder (at that point) marked Empty.

'Time to get some sleep...

Thanks again,

Glad to hear you got it figured out - yes into the folder itself...
Alternatively you could have dug down to C:\Documents and Settings\<user>\
etc and put it in there that way. If you really wanted to be fancy you could
put it into All Users (they did have that for 2k right?) and it will be
there for every account.


--
Galen - MS MVP - Windows (Shell/User & IE)
http://dts-l.org/

"A man should keep his little brain attic stocked with all the
furniture that he is likely to use, and the rest he can put away in the
lumber-room of his library where he can get it if he wants it."

Sherlock Holmes

 

[Kenneth]

You don't want to start all your programs when you start
Windows, do you? The Start->Program menu shows all the
programs that you can run on your computer (roughly). The
Start Menu folder contains only those that start when you
start Windows.

Cheers,

Cliff

Hi Cliff,

I think we may be having a word precision problem...<g>

I was commenting on the "Start Menu" folder, not the
"Startup" folder.

My understanding is that the "Start Menu" folder should show
what appears when I click the start button. It is not the
list of apps I want to run when I start Windows.

All the best,