Delay Startup items in XP

[dreamliner77]

Wondering if anyone knew how to delay items in the startup folder from starting right away. I need to stagger a few of them a bit. The only thing I could find was to add "/wait:xx" to the end of the shortcut in the folder. I tried this and it kept saying it was invalid. Just a little help here so I can be smokin again...

 

[Khayman]

Sound like someone is in need of Startup Delayer
http://www.r2.com.au/software.php?page=2&show=startdelay
and its free!

 

[GoNz0]

i used that before when my pc couldnt cope with loading a zillion things at once. works really well.

 

[dreamliner77]

I'll give it a shot, but I thought there was a way to do it manually from within windows (if ya haven't noticed, I'm not a big fan of using 3rd party soft when you can do it yourself).

 

[rushm001]

You could setup a batch file and use the pause command, the only thing you cannot specify a time, you have to press a key to continue.

 

[dreamliner77]

From the help of the main program I'm havining issues with. Also have issues with Samurize, but that's more random.


Start Option may solve some troubles you faced.

Right-click the shortcut of ThroughClock and show the properties. Type the option below one space after the file name in the Target window.


Options you can set are,

/wait:seconds
Use this option in case the Clock appears at different position from previous session. "Seconds" must be typed the number between 0 to 999. The Clock may wait for those seconds to start. 5 to 20 would generally be good to solve your trouble.
/fpu
When you faced an error message about FPU, this option command initializes it and will avoid the trouble.
/ns
This makes the Clock on Windows95 not use Screen Saver Manager.

Start Options do not differ uppercase or lowercase. You can set plural options together with.

 

[cpugeniusmv]

you could make a batch file...something to the effect of:

@echo off
ping -n 61 localhost > nul
start yourprogram.exe

just set the pinger to the number of seconds to wait 🙂

 

[dreamliner77]

I'll play around with that. The program above seems to be doing what I want right now, so I'll hang with that for at least a day or two