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It seems to me that both A_Startup and A_StartupCommon return the same value, namely:
C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Start Menu\Programs\Startup
Is it a bug or my own mistake?
I'm under XP

On my machine (XP Pro, SP2, AutoHotkey v1.0.35.05) they both return different values :

A_Startup = C:\Documents and Settings\UserName\Start Menu\Programs\Startup
A_StartupCommon = C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Start Menu\Programs\Startup

The only way that they should return the same value is if somehow you magically logged in as "all users" and I'm 99% sure thats not possible.

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I checked the code and these two values are read from the following registry locations:

Common: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE, "SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Shell Folders", "Common Startup"
User: HKEY_CURRENT_USER, "SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Shell Folders", "Startup"

However, I notice that it falls back to the user's startup folder if the RegRead for "common" fails. Perhaps your username lacks permission to query HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE? If this is what's happening, I will add this info to the help file.

Thank you very much!
Actually it was a wrong value in the
HKEY_CURRENT_USER, "SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Shell Folders", "Startup"
I don't know how it happened. I did not change anything in registry by my hands. My username have all administrative permission on this computer. Any assumptions?

According to an old (though not as old as this thread) blog entry by Raymond Chen, the Shell Folders registry key exists only for backward-compatibility with applications that were written before Windows 95 even came out. If you browse to Shell Folders in HKCU of a recent version of Windows, you may find the following value:

It is possible that Dmitry's registry keys where out of sync with the actual locations, but this would not have been a problem if the correct functions were used. (This is why I've revived this thread rather than creating a new one.)

Good to know; thanks.

To be compatible on all OSes, it looks like SHGetSpecialFolderLocation() is the one to use. Unless you or someone else feels like doing it, I've made a note to rewrite the routines for A_Startup, etc.