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Aug 02, 2015

NetgearGenie.exe enable Autostart on Windows 8.1

I'm transtitioning to a new laptop running Windows 8.1 and I can't seem to get NetgearGenie to load automatically when I log on. It was doing this without any issues on my previous laptop running Wi...

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Zed273

Aspirant

Oct 21, 2015

I too had this problem but found a fix. In this thread:

http://www.eightforums.com/performance-maintenance/11216-startup-programs-wont-start.html

There are instructions for changing your security policy to allow certain apps to run. Once I made the change, Netgear Genie would autostart (among a couple other programs I was having the same issue with).