Run at startup

DeskDrawer glossaryUpdated 7 August 2026Also called: autostart, startup task

Toggle it from the Tray menu.

DeskDrawer registers as a packaged Windows startup task, not by writing a registry Run key or dropping a file in the Startup folder. The practical consequences:

  • It appears in Task Manager → Startup apps like any well-behaved application.
  • Disabling it there genuinely disables it, and the tray menu reflects that.
  • Enabling it in the tray menu reflects in Task Manager.
  • Windows may report a startup impact measurement for it, as it does for every startup app.

The two directions staying in agreement sounds obvious; it was a real fix in 1.2.3, because the state can be changed from either place at any time.

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