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.
- 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.
Easy but quite well hidden.
Dear Support,
Thank you for your efforts but you are not solving the problem. I want to add these applications as services **that do not require any interaction from the user**. Like all the other services, I want these applications to automatically start if the entire hardware or Windows O/S restarts while I’m sleeping or over the weekend.
The links you have sent to add apps to the Startup group is nice but doesn’t solve the problem. I want to know how to add these programs to be Services on the Windows 2016 Server Services Console.