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New Teams cannot be set to start automatically
Since I started using the New Teams I have not been able to toggle the setting to start the client automatically when I login to Windows. When trying to click the setting nothing happens. There will...
After identifying that I didn't had the setting visible I started to think that there were some problem with Windows rather than New Teams. I searched and found this article:
https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/all/startup-app-in-menu-settings-is-missing-in-windows/d4ec7fe9-3f28-4b84-8757-9ecf6179d53a?page=2
The issue actually matched my machine. I also had a missing Startup App setting in the Settings App. I opened the registry I found that I were missing some of the mentioned keys.
First I added SupportUwpStartupTasks REG_DWORD 0x1. That solved the missing setting in the Settings app.
I opened the Startup App meny in the settings and I saw that New Teams were still grayed out. That wasn't the complete solution to the problem.
Second, I added SupportFullTrustStartupTasks REG_DWORD 0x1.
After I added this second registry key everything started to work as expected.Also there are two additional keys that should be set:
EnableFullTrustStartupTasks REG_DWORD 0x2
EnableUwpStartupTasks REG_DWORD 0x2
Now I need to find out why these two keys were missing on my machine. My suspicion is that they were lost during upgrade from Windows 10 to WIndows 11, but we'll see about that.
Thanks for pushing me in the right direction so that I finally could find the solution.
This is what fixed it for me:
- Right click new Teams in the Start menu (it appears as "Microsoft Teams (work or school)"
- Click App Settings
- Scroll down and click Terminate
- Click Repair
- Enable the toggle underneath Runs at log-in
Not sure if the repair was needed or not, but the toggle in the Teams app itself now works.
- Nice one! After doing this, the checkbox in Teams Settings was set for autostart, and now I am able to toggle it on and off again. Thanks!
After identifying that I didn't had the setting visible I started to think that there were some problem with Windows rather than New Teams. I searched and found this article:
https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/all/startup-app-in-menu-settings-is-missing-in-windows/d4ec7fe9-3f28-4b84-8757-9ecf6179d53a?page=2
The issue actually matched my machine. I also had a missing Startup App setting in the Settings App. I opened the registry I found that I were missing some of the mentioned keys.
First I added SupportUwpStartupTasks REG_DWORD 0x1. That solved the missing setting in the Settings app.
I opened the Startup App meny in the settings and I saw that New Teams were still grayed out. That wasn't the complete solution to the problem.
Second, I added SupportFullTrustStartupTasks REG_DWORD 0x1.
After I added this second registry key everything started to work as expected.Also there are two additional keys that should be set:
EnableFullTrustStartupTasks REG_DWORD 0x2
EnableUwpStartupTasks REG_DWORD 0x2
Now I need to find out why these two keys were missing on my machine. My suspicion is that they were lost during upgrade from Windows 10 to WIndows 11, but we'll see about that.
Thanks for pushing me in the right direction so that I finally could find the solution.- Your two first mentioned registry keys did it for me. Thanks!
I did have the checkbox but could not tick it. Patrik_Lundberg Thanks, this solution worked perfectly for one of our users. We are running Windows 10 and have not upgraded to Windows 11 yet, so not sure going from 10 to 11 caused the issue. In our case the checkbox to allow Teams to startup automatically was not grayed out, you just could not click the box. Once the registry settings were added that were missing though, the user was able to check the box, restart his machine, and teams opens up automatically now. Thanks again for this solution!
- Thanks for your suggestion. Makes sense. On my machine the alternative to run at logon is missing for the New Teams app.
