Startup menu to change

• Feb 10, 2026
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The startup menu can be easily in a few steps, because often Windows nest programs, there is the unasked one. This can be in some of the Tools useful, other brakes in the System when Windows-Start is unnecessary. In this practical tip explains how you can use the startup menu to change and how you the programs from the startup to remove a menu or add.

The system configuration "msconfig" to manage

Many programs can be opened from the Windows registration database. This is used to allow the system configuration utility "msconfig" to manage:

1. Click on the Windows start logo.
2. Type in the search box "msconfig".
3. You open the program.
4. Go to the tab "system start".
5. You take the hook at the programs out, you want to take it out of the startup folder; put the check in the programs that you want to copy to the startup menu.
6. By clicking on "Apply", the Changes are saved.
7. You start Windows for the Changes to become effective.

Windows folder options to change

The startup folder, in which you can enter the startup menu, is hidden by default. So you can make the folder display:

1. Open "my computer" (Computer).
2. Top left, click on "Organize" and then select "folder and search options".
3. Go to the tab "view".
4. Select "show Hidden files and folders", the second Option: "show hidden files, folders, and drives".
5. Click on "Apply", then click "OK".

Programs from the startup menu, delete

In the startup folder, the shortcuts of the programs that are in startup menu. Programs from the startup folder, open the drive where your Windows System is installed. It is usually drive C. Open the following sequence of folders:

1. "User" > "User Name" > "AppData"
2. "Roaming" > "Microsoft" > "Windows"
3. "Start Menu" > "Programs" > "Startup"
4. Here are the program links. With a right click on a program shortcut you can delete this. As a result, the program is also removed from the startup menu.

Programs to the startup menu, add

To add a program to the startup menu, proceed as follows:

• You can open the startup folder as described in the previous section.
• Right-click anywhere in the folder (not a shortcut!).
• Select "New" - "Shortcut" - "Browse".
• Are you looking for the link to the program that you want to add. Select the link and then click "OK".
• Click on "Next", enter a name for the shortcut and click "Finish".
• Alternatively, you can Copy over Copy-Paste work: the desired link and paste it in the startup folder. However, be careful not to copy the Exe file of the program!

Windows startup additional programs to manage

In addition to the Windows-own Tools, there is still the possibility to manage the startup menu on Downloads from third parties. Such a program is, for example, the free "startup Manager".

This article applies to Windows 7. For more information, you can find here.

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