I recently installed SpeedFan to control my overly noisy case fans. Best I can tell, it doesn't have a "start at boot" option. I tried the typical solution, which was to throw a shortcut that points to the exe into the StartUp folder. That works for other apps just fine. But not SpeedFan. It simply refused to load automatically unless I manually launch it. Why is that, and why is the StartUp folder not doing its job and triggering it? I even tried creating a scheduled task that would launch it at boot, but it never does (Windows just says "task not yet run" in the note).