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How to find the startup folder on Windows Server 2012 or 2016

October 18, 2017 by Paulie 28 Comments

It’s always been simple to find the startup folder in most versions of Windows to configure an application to start automatically when a user logs in.

Here is how to find the startup folder on Windows Server 2012 and Windows Server 2016

  • Right Click on the start menu and choose run
  • Type “shell:startup” and click ok.The run dialog box showing how to access the startup folder on Windows Server 2012 and Windows Server 2016
  • Then the startup folder will appear and you can drop shortcuts or applications into it.

To find the common startup folder for all users

  • Right click on the start menu and choose run
  • Type “shell:common startup” and click ok.
    Run window on Windows Server showing how to access the common startup folder for all users.

Easy but quite well hidden. If you found this post helpful, I’d really appreciate it if you would rate it for me.

Filed Under: How To Tagged With: Windows Server 2012 r2, Windows Server 2016

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Comments

  1. Abc says

    January 22, 2019 at 7:18 pm

    Perfect! Thanks.

  2. Keith says

    July 12, 2019 at 2:54 am

    good guide…useful for me.

  3. TSG says

    October 7, 2019 at 9:22 pm

    Many thanks for this , much appreciated.

  4. Gigi Gardan says

    October 16, 2019 at 10:06 am

    top!

  5. Dermot says

    December 1, 2019 at 6:07 am

    Very helpful! Thanks!

  6. Rick says

    December 20, 2019 at 11:46 am

    Excellent!!!

  7. Mashal says

    December 29, 2019 at 7:45 am

    Very good and useful. Yes, easy but hidden.

  8. M says

    December 31, 2019 at 5:47 pm

    Both locations are empty but Discord opens with every startup of Server 2016.

  9. Michael Perry says

    February 4, 2020 at 9:47 pm

    Thanks, works on Server 2019 as well.

  10. MACIU? ?MIGIELSKI says

    February 5, 2020 at 6:45 pm

    THANK YOU!

  11. gespo says

    February 10, 2020 at 10:47 am

    thank you

  12. Moreno says

    February 28, 2020 at 11:32 am

    Thanks!. It sorted my problem

  13. Aashu says

    March 24, 2020 at 8:09 am

    Helpful info. Thank you

  14. Lee Higginbotham says

    April 1, 2020 at 12:46 pm

    Excellent post! Thank you this was exactly what I needed!

  15. Atheeque says

    August 16, 2020 at 4:13 pm

    Thank You

  16. fastbikkel says

    December 7, 2020 at 8:24 am

    “typing shell:startup” in the cmd/ run screen on my windows 2016 server doesnt do anything. It just says “no results found”

  17. Geoff says

    December 16, 2020 at 7:36 pm

    Thank you!

  18. Thierry says

    December 22, 2020 at 11:50 am

    Very ggod!
    Thanks a lot….

  19. thomas wrobel says

    December 30, 2020 at 5:02 pm

    thank you

  20. Mooya says

    January 18, 2021 at 9:51 am

    Great! Thank you.

  21. Joe Morton says

    January 30, 2021 at 4:40 pm

    It’s not “right-click”, it’s “Left-click” and then type the command.

  22. Tony says

    February 1, 2021 at 5:34 pm

    Very useful, thank you.

  23. Superior Support says

    March 9, 2021 at 10:22 pm

    Excellent article.

  24. Monty says

    July 15, 2021 at 6:53 am

    Just found this in 2021 so still helping people out 🙂

  25. cool says

    August 17, 2021 at 3:24 am

    it’s done if desktop was logon. how to run a program before login Ctrl Alt Delete on server2012 ?

  26. Keith says

    September 21, 2021 at 7:05 pm

    Awsome! So easy. Thanks for the info.

  27. Chaitanya Dhareshwar says

    March 11, 2022 at 8:54 am

    Totally fantastic! Did the job perfectly within seconds. I’m adding this site to my virtual workspace management bible!!

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