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PowerToys not running at startup #28290

Open AshBearPig opened 1 year ago

AshBearPig commented 1 year ago

Microsoft PowerToys version

0.73.0

Installation method

Microsoft Store

Running as admin

Yes

Area(s) with issue?

General

Steps to reproduce

Every time I switch on my machine or perform a restart. PowerToys does not run at startup. at all. I have tried everything but I still cannot get it to run at startup and I have to keep manually opening the programme.

Yes, the option to run at startup is on. I am running as admin. I have checked my startup programmes and PowerToys is there, enabled. I have also tried toggling the run at startup option on/off and restarting. But it still will not run!

Please help. Its a small issue but rather annoying as i use various features of PowerToys on demand.

Thanks Ash

✔️ Expected Behavior

PowerToys should be running at startup

❌ Actual Behavior

PowerToys is not running at startup

Other Software

No response

jaimecbernardo commented 1 year ago

PowerToys in in startup programs? It's not supposed to be there. PowerToys is supposed to be running from a scheduled task on long. Can you please check your scheduled tasks to check if it's there? image

jaimecbernardo commented 1 year ago

/needinfo

AshBearPig commented 1 year ago

Hi Jamie,

Thanks for this - i just checked my task scheduler and PowerToys was there, but disabled? No idea why, but I have re-enabled it, so hopefully It should run at startup from now on.

When you say it shouldn't be in startup programmes, should i turn it off? or remove it?

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Thanks Ash

binarynoise commented 1 year ago

For me, the autostart entry is deleted after updating and I need to manually disable and enable autostart in the powertoys settings to make it work again for each user (I have a "normal" and an admin user). But that seems to be #16951

AshBearPig commented 1 year ago

So after enabling it within task scheduler, I start-up my computer today and its still not running at startup. Opened up the scheduler and its been disabled again?

No idea what's going on

cinnamon-msft commented 6 days ago

Are you still experiencing this issue? /needinfo

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