Using your guide, I’m down at the Registry Edit to give it a shot as so far nothing has worked.I have 2 windows 10 desktop Dell computers that are not loading startup stuff. I can enable it in Task Manager, reboot and they don’t start, check Task Manager, they are again disabled.I have 4-5 things I want started, my wife on her’s needs two items. I’ve been just opening the Shell:common startup and manually starting the items. My wife is doing similar but with two shortcuts where she can double click them and get them running.

Needless to say, this is frustrating. I’m suspicious of Avast One which was recently installed on these computers and at one point after a week or more I let Avast perform a lot of updates on the two machines. I’m thinking I made a mistake doing that maybe.

Anyway, I appreciate your 7 steps but for me, I’ve only the registry edit left and I think I’m just worn out fighting this issue.

Regards,Gene