How to autostart after login? #5

I use Windhawk in Portable mode on my cloud drive so that I can use the same settings on different machines. Would be great if there was an easy way to enable autostart. I think given enough information (changing something outside the folder) they can make an informed decision to enable it.

I finally updated to 24H2 and had to leave 7+TT after using that for many many years too. Migrated to Windhawk which has most of the features I need. Thanks for all the hard work all that time.

For any user who doesn't know how to manually do it:

1. Go to the Windhawk folder
2. Create a shortcut of the windhawk.exe (right click menu) and give it a better name if you want
3. Open the properties of the shortcut (right click menu)
4. Change windhawk.exe to windhawk.exe -tray-only in the Target field.
5. Save changes
6. Open File Explorer
7. Go to %userprofile%\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\Programs
8. Open the Startup folder (you can create it if it doesn't exist)
9. Move or copy the Shortcut into the Startup folder
10. Reboot

Thanks! 💯

Yes, you can run windhawk.exe with the -tray-only command line switch.

I think I somehow disabled the tray icon from somewhere, but WOW this parameter work with no tray option, that does make sense but I love it.

This didn't work for me and I'm not sure what part's wrong.

Got the following error:

@quietmansoath move -tray-only outside of the quotes.

It works, but it's slow. Windows comes up with the default UI and it takes a bit of time until it loads up the portable executable.

yes you are right it will take sometime