How to Fix Google Drive Desktop Does Not Launch with Windows

Posted on by Summa Lai

Solution 1

Try enabling google-drive (google cloud) on Windows start up programs.

  1. Ctrl+Alt+Delete to go to the task manager.
  2. Go to the “startup” tab
  3. Find “googledrivesync.exe” and enable it.

Of course, if it is enabled there, this solution won’t work.

Solution 2

Step 1: Uninstall Google Drive.

Step 2: Delete the directory named Drive.

I found this directory inside C:\Users\<myUserId>\AppData\Local\Google. If you are using Windows 7 Home Premium (SP 1), you will perhaps find it in the same place. If you’re using a different operating system, you may not find it in the same place, so you’ll have to go hunting for it.

Step 3: Reinstall Google Drive.

Solution 3

Step 1, run Google App manually

Step 2 click “Google Drive” from task bar

Step 3 click the icon for “settings” besides the folder mark

Step 4 click the icon for “settings” besides the question mark

Step 5 go to “Preferences”, check the “Launch Google Drive on system startup”