How can I add programs to open on start up in Windows XP?

Answer by  pradonog (117)

Find your programs EXE files (just try to find it by searching it, usually on drive c:/program files then click-hold right mouse button on the program icon you wanted to run or open on Windows Startup, drag it to your startup folder on menu bar, release it, then chose create shortcut here

Answer by  blyte (67)

Any program executable that you add to the Startup folder will run when XP starts up. To find the Startup folder, click the Start button, and then select All Programs.

Answer by  Xisco21 (110)

If you have a look in the Start Menu, under 'All Programs' you will see a folder called 'Startup'. All you need to do to launch a program on start-up is to place a shortcut to the program in this folder.

Answer by  Anupam (77)

Drag the shortcut (or exe) of your program, Move the mouse on the Windows XP Start Menu, then go to "All Programs" and leave the shortcut in the "Startup" folder.

Answer by  Phil28 (379)

Simply put a link to the program into the folder "startup" which you can find when you click start and open "All Programs". You might find other programs already listed there but not all that are run at startup since there is a plethera of other ways to achieve this.