Delay a Batch command

the_tazinator · February 18th, 2004

I am trying to write a batch file that will start a service 1 minute after a computer boots up. I have it set as a scheduled task to run at startup but I need to put a delay in it so that everything else has started before this process starts. Any ideas on how to create a simple 60 second delay?

**Khayman** · February 18th, 2004

I don't think you can do it on the batc file but this program
http://www.r2.com.au/software.php?pa...how=startdelay
allows you to specify a startup order and delay items, so you should be able to put the batch file in startup and use this

the_tazinator · February 18th, 2004

I found a round-about way of creating the delay, but for anyone who wants to know how I did it; I pinged and invalid IP address once with a timeout of 60 seconds, works perfect!

ping 1.1.1.1 -n 1 -w 60000

This way the time delay can be easily be changed.

**Khayman** · February 18th, 2004

Nice work around, i'll have to remember that

**yoyo** · February 19th, 2004

Agreed, nice workaround.

Alternatively you could use sleep.exe from the Windows Server 2003 (and XP) Resource Kit Tools.
In case you don't want to download 12 MB to get a 5 KB file, find it attached. Unzip into your system32 folder. Now a line like
Sleep 10
will pause a batch file for ten seconds.

**X-Istence** · February 21st, 2004

Hmmm, sleep was first introduced for BSD/Linux :P

February 18th, 2004	Top \| #1
the_tazinator Are we there yet? Joined: May 2002 Location: In a house Posts: 177 Reputation: 40 Power: 124	Delay a Batch command I am trying to write a batch file that will start a service 1 minute after a computer boots up. I have it set as a scheduled task to run at startup but I need to put a delay in it so that everything else has started before this process starts. Any ideas on how to create a simple 60 second delay?

February 18th, 2004	Top \| #2
Khayman I'm sorry Hal... Joined: January 2002 Location: England Posts: 5,514 Reputation: 1210 Power: 194	I don't think you can do it on the batc file but this program http://www.r2.com.au/software.php?pa...how=startdelay allows you to specify a startup order and delay items, so you should be able to put the batch file in startup and use this "I'm on the server side. I don't know what side you're on"

February 18th, 2004	Top \| #4
Khayman I'm sorry Hal... Joined: January 2002 Location: England Posts: 5,514 Reputation: 1210 Power: 194	Nice work around, i'll have to remember that "I'm on the server side. I don't know what side you're on"

February 21st, 2004	Top \| #6
X-Istence * Joined: December 2001 Location: USA Posts: 6,496 Reputation: 2808 Power: 220	Hmmm, sleep was first introduced for BSD/Linux :P An engineers technical notebook

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February 18th, 2004	Top \| #3
the_tazinator Are we there yet? Joined: May 2002 Location: In a house Posts: 177 Reputation: 40 Power: 124	I found a round-about way of creating the delay, but for anyone who wants to know how I did it; I pinged and invalid IP address once with a timeout of 60 seconds, works perfect! ping 1.1.1.1 -n 1 -w 60000 This way the time delay can be easily be changed.