Add group policy to disable auto start

[cinnamon-msft]

Description of the new feature / enhancement

We don't have the ability to allow GPO to disable auto start of PowerToys after login. We should add that :)

Scenario when this would be used?

Enterprises wanting more flexibility to manage PowerToys

Supporting information

No response

[htcfreek]

@jaimecbernardo , @cinnamon-msft
Please be aware of #32714 which requests (force) enabled policy state for auto run feature.

[jaimecbernardo]

@htcfreek , thanks for the call out! I'll analyze it, but I'm thinking that might be hard to force (as you've commented). Perhaps we'll go with best case scenario.
The way I'm thinking about this would be about disabling the creation of the scheduled task or removing it if it's created.
Not sure if there's a way to detect if an application was auto-started.

[htcfreek]

The way I'm thinking about this would be about disabling the creation of the scheduled task or removing it if it's created.

I had the same thoughts. Disabling the setting and removing the task.

Not sure if there's a way to detect if an application was auto-started.

This sounds a bit out of scoop to me. 🤔 The use case is disabling auto start and preventing the user from enabling again in PT settings I think. We aren't able to control all possible custom ways of auto start.

But we can write a not that disabling only disables feature in PT and not blocks other ways if custom auto start config.

[jaimecbernardo]

But we can write a not that disabling only disables feature in PT and not blocks other ways if custom auto start config.

Assuming the best place is in the GPO description in the adml file 🤔

[htcfreek]

@jaimecbernardo
Might be worth looking at microsoft/terminal#18530 .

[jaimecbernardo]

@jaimecbernardo Might be worth looking at microsoft/terminal#18530 .

Thanks for the callout @htcfreek , 🤔
From what I see, looks like we're doing auto start different than Terminal, we don't use APIs from the OS for the autostart, we actually create a scheduled task manually. They're using https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/uwp/api/windows.applicationmodel.startuptask?view=winrt-26100 in Terminal, from what I see.