Run Program on Startup?

There are many options, the Startup folder being only one of them.

A detailed guide is available here: http://oreilly.com/pub/a/oreilly/windows/ron/startup_0401.html

The most popular option these days is the registry - see the guide link above for details.

The preferred way is to create a registry entry, such as in HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE/SOFTWARE/Microsoft/Windows/CurrentVersion/Run. The key needs to be of type REG_SZ (0-terminated string) and contain a unique name as Name and the program's full executable path as Data.

Yet another method is to use the task scheduler found under accessories/system tools. Create a task that launches the program at startup.