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I am trying to disable startup items and some items cannot be disabled when I am running Task Manager as a regular user, when I run it as an Administrator, the startup tab is empty, displaying the message There are no startup items to display, even though they were there when running as a regular user. How do I get them to display? Had no such problem with msconfig in Windows 7 before.

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  • Have you tried MSConfig in Windows 10? Right click Start menu, choose Run, then type MSCONFIG
    – vssher
    Commented Jul 26, 2020 at 0:19
  • The Startup tab is only a link to Task Manager since Windows 8, so it just goes back.
    – WinMacLinUser
    Commented Jul 26, 2020 at 0:22
  • Physic debugging again. Administrators cannot run task manager as a ordinary user. Therefore you are running it as another user. Therefore it shows that user's startup list.
    – Mark
    Commented Jul 26, 2020 at 0:40
  • No, when I run it as a regular user the startup items do show but some cannot be disabled, when I run it as an administrator none of them show up at all.
    – WinMacLinUser
    Commented Jul 26, 2020 at 1:19
  • Try another MS tool, docs.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/downloads/autoruns, Autoruns, which gives many more options and much greater detail.
    – DrMoishe Pippik
    Commented Jul 26, 2020 at 2:39

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Make sure the %appdata%\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\Programs and C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\Programs folders both contain a folder called Startup.

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  • This is an old thread, but anyway, there is no problem there.
    – WinMacLinUser
    Commented Jun 26, 2021 at 4:50
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Hippity hoppity, I know I'm late as hell, but I got a working solution:

  1. Open Regedit
  2. Go to HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\User Shell Folders
  3. Click on the 'Startup' key
  4. On Value Data, enter: %USERPROFILE%\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\Programs\Startup
  5. Check your Task Manager and voila! Your startup apps are back!!

Hope this helps someone in case recreating the Startup folders doesn't work!!

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