He opened File Explorer and pasted this into the address bar: shell:startup
Sophia was a creature of habit. Every morning, like clockwork, she’d boot up her Windows 11 laptop, pour a cup of coffee, and then manually open the same three apps: Spotify (for lo-fi beats), Microsoft To Do (to stare at her guilt-inducing task list), and Firefox (with fourteen tabs she refused to close). windows 11 add to startup
Sophia’s eyes lit up. “So I could even add a spreadsheet? A text file?” He opened File Explorer and pasted this into
She took a sip of coffee. Lukewarm. Again. “So I could even add a spreadsheet
For the next hour, Sophia became a startup wizard. She added Spotify (via its internal toggle), Firefox (via the Startup folder shortcut), and Microsoft To Do—which didn’t have a built-in option, so she created a shortcut to its todo: protocol URL and placed it in the folder.
She opened Spotify, clicked her profile → Settings, and sure enough, there it was: a dropdown. She set it to “Yes.”