
Now, this file will not run on startup and also will not prompt you “How do you want to open this file?” screen. This will open the location in File Explorer, which is the same location that we already checked in step-4 above while searching the file. To confirm the path of this file, just right-click and choose the “Open file location” option. Right-click on that file and select the “Disable” option from the menu. This name might be different in your case so find accordingly. Find the file with the name “M” as I found this file name in step-4 above. Here, you can see all the apps and files that Windows run at startup.
On the Task Manager window, click the “Startup” tab.
Tip: Another way to open it is just right-click on Taskbar and select Task Manager.
Press Ctrl+Alt+Del keys combination from the keyboard and select Task Manager to open it. To locate the startup items in Windows 10, you can use Task Manager as well. We have already located the file and now it’s time to disable it from Windows 10 startup. As you can see in the save as window, the path is “C:\users” and the file name is “M” which is suspicious to me. Doing that, you will let you know the file location that is trying to open itself on startup and ask you to choose an application. Now, In the notepad click the File menu and then select the “Save As” option. The startup file will open in Notepad, and you will see the file contains text something like thatĭefault option is not allowed more than '2' time(s). So, go to “C:\Windows” and choose the “notepad.exe” file here. In the next dialog, we will give the path to the application manually. NOTE: If you can’t see Notepad in the list then scroll down to view more apps or select the “Look for another app on this PC” option. Once you see this screen on Windows 10 startup, select the Notepad app from the list of applications, as you can see below in the screenshot.