Running ClickOnce apps at startup

We use an internal tool to keep a watchful eye on the various bug databases we might have bugs in, to get notifications when new ones come in and to provide a fairly reasonable summary UI. This was internally released as a ClickOnce (Wikipedia) application using .NET. I thought it best to put it in the startup group to run on login, but found after working a number of times, it stopped launching at some point. Turns out, this is because you can’t put the application reference in the Startup items since it might move as later versions get installed. Instead, follow this article by Keith Elder to create a regular old internet shortcut and get the right behavior.