Click — Spotify. Click — Microsoft To Do. Click — Firefox.
Her teenage nephew, Leo, who was visiting and had an annoying habit of appearing silently behind her, piped up. “You know you can just… add them to startup, right?” windows 11 add to startup
A folder popped open—empty, except for a shortcut Leo quickly made by right-clicking → New → Shortcut. He browsed to C:\Program Files\WindowsApps (which was hidden and messy), but for normal apps like Firefox, he just found firefox.exe in C:\Program Files\Mozilla Firefox , created a shortcut, and dragged it into that folder. Click — Spotify
Leo rolled his eyes with the theatrical grace of a sixteen-year-old who had explained this to three relatives already. “Yeah, Aunt Sophia. Windows 11 has a whole folder for it. Or you can do it from Settings. Want me to show you?” Her teenage nephew, Leo, who was visiting and
“Yeah. In Settings, under ‘Startup and window behavior’.”
One rainy Tuesday, after a particularly brutal Monday, she yawned, clicked the power button, and watched the lock screen appear. She typed her password, waited for the desktop to settle, and then… sighed.