How can we extract startup UWP applications?

Question

I am using C++ code base to develop a forensic tool. The requirement is to display all the startup applications. However UWP apps which are enabled to run at startup, are not found in RegEdit at "HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run" or any other paths which have startup applications info.

If I have to write a code to extract Startup applications like Cortana,Skype,Spotify etc (UWP apps) from registry or windows folders, how do I do it?
Is there any path where UWP startup applications are stored?

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This is continuation question to :

https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/windows_10-start-win_general/startup-apllications-in-windows-10/0b895da7-fa49-4a4d-816f-0adb3445fc74?messageId=1c952cf4-85f4-4bc2-bb21-5d4a7f1c9035

Answer 1

Hi,

I suggest you could try to use the Windows.Management.Deployment APIs.

1,Enumerate installed packages by PackageManager.FindPackagesForUserWithPackageType

2,Use GetPackageApplicationIds to get the IDs of apps in the specified package.

3,Use StartupTask.GetAsync to get a startup task by Id.

I suggest you could refer to the sample: Enumerate app packages

Best Regards,

Jeanine

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Answer 2

You can see this thread : How to use powershell to manage startup items of uwp app in windwos 10?
or
Startup Apllications in Windows 10