Can't select Start Teams automatically

Hello @Morten Fly

I‘m sorry for the experience you're facing with enabling the Auto-start feature for the new Microsoft Teams.  Here are some options you can try:  Option 1: Enable Microsoft Teams on the Startup tab 

• Open Task Manager (you can press Ctrl + Shift + Esc or right-click on the taskbar and select “Task Manager”).  
• Navigate to the Startup tab. Verify if Microsoft Teams is enabled in the list. If not, enable it. 
• Ensure that there is no anti-virus software blocking the Teams app. Sometimes security software can interfere with startup processes. 

Option 2: You might want to try the following steps specifically for the new Teams: 

• Right-click on the new Teams icon in the Start menu (it appears as “Microsoft Teams (work or school)”).  
• Click on App Settings > Scroll down and click Terminate.  
• Click Repair > Enable the toggle underneath Runs at log-in. 

Option 2: Turn on "Run at log-in 

• Right click on the shortcut > Select More/App settings 
• In App settings the "Runs at log-in" was Off, I turned On and all good in the app. 

Additionally, you can also find more information at this link: Configure Startup Applications in Windows - Microsoft Support

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Thank you again for your time and for raising this important usability concern. If you have any further questions or need additional assistance, please don’t hesitate to reach out.  I look forward to your thoughts on this. 

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The most likely cause is that Windows startup tasks for UWP/MSIX apps are disabled on your colleague’s device by a system policy, so Teams can’t allow “Start Teams automatically” to be enabled.

For the new Teams client in VDI and similar environments, autostart is controlled by:

1. System-wide Group Policy / registry for UWP startup tasks:
   • If these values are set to 0, the autostart option is greyed out for UWP apps:

      [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\System]
      "EnableFullTrustStartupTasks"=dword:00000000
      "EnableUwpStartupTasks"=dword:00000000
      "SupportFullTrustStartupTasks"=dword:00000000
      "SupportUwpStartupTasks"=dword:00000000
   

   To allow users to control autostart, they must be configured like this instead:

      [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\System]
      "EnableFullTrustStartupTasks"=dword:00000002
      "EnableUwpStartupTasks"=dword:00000002
      "SupportFullTrustStartupTasks"=dword:00000001
      "SupportUwpStartupTasks"=dword:00000001
   

   After changing, restart the device.
2. The per-user Teams autostart state:
   • Teams uses this key to store the user’s autostart preference:

      [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Classes\Local Settings\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\AppModel\SystemAppData\MSTeams_8wekyb3d8bbwe\TeamsTfwStartupTask]
      "State"=dword:00000002
      "UserEnabledStartupOnce"=dword:00000001
   

   If a central policy forces State to Disabled (0), the checkbox in Teams will remain unavailable.

Actions for the affected device:

1. Ask an administrator to compare the HKLM\...\Policies\System values between the two PCs and align them with the enabled example above.
2. Confirm there is no Group Policy object enforcing those values for only one of the users or devices.
3. After policy/registry correction and a reboot, reopen Teams and verify that “Start Teams automatically” can be selected.

References:

• Install Teams for Virtualized Desktop Infrastructure (VDI)