{"id":24234,"date":"2021-06-19T18:10:46","date_gmt":"2021-06-19T12:40:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/198.58.113.91\/blog\/?p=24234"},"modified":"2021-06-19T18:19:54","modified_gmt":"2021-06-19T12:49:54","slug":"taskmgr-startup-tab-empty-no-items","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.winhelponline.com\/blog\/taskmgr-startup-tab-empty-no-items\/","title":{"rendered":"Task Manager Startup tab Empty – No startup items to display"},"content":{"rendered":"

When you open Task Manager and click on the Startup tab, it may show up empty. You may see a message that reads “There are no startup items to display”.<\/p>\n

This issue may happen even though you have many startup entries<\/a> in the Run registry keys.<\/p>\n

\"task<\/p>\n

RELATED:<\/strong> What is \u201cProgram\u201d in Task Manager Startup Tab<\/a><\/div>\n

Cause<\/h2>\n

The Task Manager Startup tab may show the message “There are no startup items to display” if the Startup<\/code> folder or the Common Startup<\/code> folder has been deleted from your computer. This may be the minor side-effect of deleting empty folders<\/a> en masse<\/em> using a third-party program or script.<\/p>\n

When you run the “shell:startup<\/code>” or “shell:common startup<\/code>” shell command<\/a> to launch the startup folder, the following error(s) appear:<\/p>\n

Windows cannot find 'shell:startup'. Make sure you typed the name correctly, and then try again.<\/pre>\n
Windows cannot find 'shell:common startup'. Make sure you typed the name correctly, and then try again.<\/pre>\n
Resolution<\/h2>\n
To resolve the issue, recreate the Startup folders manually.<\/p>\n
Open the following folder in File Explorer:<\/p>\n
C:\\ProgramData\\Microsoft\\Windows\\Start Menu\\Programs<\/pre>\n
Create a subfolder named “Startup<\/code>” (if it doesn’t already exist)<\/p>\n
Repeat the same in the following location:<\/p>\n
C:\\Users\\%username%\\AppData\\Roaming\\Microsoft\\Windows\\Start Menu\\Programs<\/pre>\n
Using Command Prompt<\/h3>\n
Alternately, you can accomplish this easily using Command Prompt.<\/p>\n
Open an admin Command Prompt<\/a> window and run these two commands:<\/p>\n
md \"%ProgramData%\\Microsoft\\Windows\\Start Menu\\Programs\\Startup\"\r\n\r\nmd \"%AppData%\\Microsoft\\Windows\\Start Menu\\Programs\\Startup\"<\/pre>\n
(Ignore the message “already exists” if it appears for one of the above commands.)<\/em><\/p>\n
That’s it. Task Manager should now list your startup entries correctly.<\/p>\n
Still doesn’t work?<\/h3>\n
If that doesn’t help, you’ll need to fix the Startup folder path in the User Shell Folders<\/code> registry key. For detailed information, check out the section “The Startup shell folder location is incorrect<\/em>” in the article [Fix] Programs in the Startup Folder not Starting<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
When you open Task Manager and click on the Startup tab, it may show up empty. You may see a message that reads “There are no startup items to display”. This issue may happen even though you have many startup entries in the Run registry keys.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[7],"tags":[580],"class_list":["post-24234","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-windows","tag-task-manager"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":4892,"url":"https:\/\/www.winhelponline.com\/blog\/task-manager-startup-tab-entries-remove-invalid\/","url_meta":{"origin":24234,"position":0},"title":"How to Remove Invalid Entries from Task Manager Startup tab","author":"Ramesh","date":"December 19, 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"Managing startup entries was possible using the System Configuration Utility (msconfig.exe), in Windows 7 and earlier. 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