Now go ahead—take control of your Windows 11 login experience. Happy booting

While Windows 11 offers a built-in "Startup Apps" panel to disable bloatware, adding your own applications to that list requires a slightly different approach. Here are the three most effective methods to make any app launch at startup. This is the simplest method, relying on a hidden system folder you’ve probably never used.

Open the Startup folder using shell:startup (as shown in Method 1).