Add "Run at startup" Feature in group policies

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Add "Run at startup" Feature in group policies #32714

Open risitas69 opened 2 months ago

risitas69 commented 2 months ago

Description of the new feature / enhancement

Add a group policy allowing to run PowerToys at startup Example : Run at startup (User can choose, On, Off)

Scenario when this would be used?

When admins use ADMX for apply group policies

Supporting information

This had already been proposed by @Aaron-Junker https://github.com/microsoft/PowerToys/issues/14008

htcfreek commented 2 months ago

This is a bit hard to realize for "force enabled".

We can easily implement ...

"force disabled": Exit PT Run after a GPO check, if started with an autostart parameter.
"user choice": If GPO is not configured we don't have a forced setting in the Registry that we can respect. So the user has to choose anyway.

But for "force enabled" we either have to be able to create the auto run task without starting the runner or the policy can only be applied after opening PT (settings).