Configure Startup Applications in Windows

If you see the massage We couldn鈥檛 find this app as an app title in Settings, the app could be on a removable drive, a network drive, or the path to the app might not exist. This could also happen if an app was uninstalled, therefore you can try to reinstall the app to try to fix it.

To find more information about the missing app, select the聽聽icon聽next to the On / Off toggle of the app.

When there isn鈥檛 a valid path, a window lists the registry location or the file path that聽contains the broken path. If the path points to a registry location, you can use the聽Registry Editor and find the broken path.

The startup applications in Windows can be stored in specific registry locations.

For applications that run at startup for all users, the registry paths are:

HKLM\Software\Wow6432Node\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run

HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run

For applications that run at startup for the current user, the registry path聽is:

HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run

Caution:聽聽modifying the registry can have unintended consequences. It鈥檚 important to be careful and back up the registry before making changes.