{"id":6977,"date":"2026-01-11T10:29:30","date_gmt":"2026-01-11T10:29:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vpsforextrader.com\/?post_type=how-to&#038;p=6977"},"modified":"2026-01-27T08:41:53","modified_gmt":"2026-01-27T08:41:53","slug":"how-to-setup-automatic-mt4-startup","status":"publish","type":"how-to","link":"https:\/\/www.vpsforextrader.com\/pt-pt\/how-to\/how-to-setup-automatic-mt4-startup\/","title":{"rendered":"13. How to Setup Automatic MT4 Startup?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>If you want to make MT4 to start automatically after you log in, you will need to add it to the startup folder.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>First, you need to locate the&nbsp;<em>startup<\/em>&nbsp;folder. In order to do that, follow the steps below:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>STEP 1<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Open up the&nbsp;<em>Run<\/em>&nbsp;dialog from the&nbsp;<em>Start menu<\/em>&nbsp;or just by pressing&nbsp;&nbsp;<em>Windows+R&nbsp;<\/em>shortcut on your keyboard<em>.&nbsp;<\/em>Enter the following command:&nbsp;<em>shell:startup<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vpsforextrader.com\/images\/kb\/186_Screenshot_1.png\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>STEP 2<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Find the executable file of the software you want to startup automatically,&nbsp;<em>Right Click<\/em>&nbsp;on it and select&nbsp;<em>Create a shortcut<\/em>.&nbsp;Copy &amp; paste recently created shortcut to the&nbsp;<em>startup<\/em>&nbsp;folder.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vpsforextrader.com\/images\/kb\/187_Screenshot_2.png\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>In this example, we have just set our Google Chrome browser to start up automatically once we have logged in.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If you already have a shortcut of your MT4, you do not need to create another one, just copy the existing one to the startup folder.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>After you done, MT4 will start automatically after you log in to your user.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you want to make MT4 to start automatically after you log in, you will need to add it to the startup folder. First, you need to locate the&nbsp;startup&nbsp;folder. In order to do that, follow the steps below: STEP 1 Open up the&nbsp;Run&nbsp;dialog from the&nbsp;Start menu&nbsp;or just by pressing&nbsp;&nbsp;Windows+R&nbsp;shortcut on your keyboard.&nbsp;Enter the following command:&nbsp;shell:startup [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":6885,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"class_list":["post-6977","how-to","type-how-to","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vpsforextrader.com\/pt-pt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/how-to\/6977","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vpsforextrader.com\/pt-pt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/how-to"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vpsforextrader.com\/pt-pt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/how-to"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vpsforextrader.com\/pt-pt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vpsforextrader.com\/pt-pt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6885"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vpsforextrader.com\/pt-pt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6977"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}