App Delay Startup

[Jonj1611]

Does anyone know any good programs to delay start up applications? I have something I want to load later than the rest, its doesn't seem to have a service so cannot delay it through services

Something spam/adware free!

[kompukare]

Does anyone know any good programs to delay start up applications? I have something I want to load later than the rest, its doesn't seem to have a service so cannot delay it through services

Something spam/adware free!

Batch file with TIMEOUT?
This should get you a 10 second wait?
TIMEOUT /T 10

[Jonj1611]

Was hoping for something a bit more controllable but a batch file will suffice if it comes to it.

Last time I wrote a batch file was in the dos days!

[jimbouk]

Old ones are the good ones! I'm sure there's something you could download from the interwebs but as you say these days it's hard to get handy tools that don't try and hijack your browser.

If a service could do what you want them create one? http://dotnetlearners.com/windowsser...command-prompt

[AGTDenton]

Batch file with TIMEOUT?
This should get you a 10 second wait?
TIMEOUT /T 10

I do exactly that and works like a charm, I'd say you have far more control than any 3rd party app. I have an app that displays 'connection failed' because the device it's trying to talk to isn't ready so I delay the starting of the App until the device is likely to be ready.

- You can either Task Schedule or use a Cron job to have the Batch file run on startup.

- Put the batch file or a shortcut to the batch file in:
"C:\Users\{YOUR USER}\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\Programs\Startup"
Or for ALL Users
"C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\Programs\StartUp"

- Or you can start the batch file from the registry:
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run]
or for ALL users
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run]

If you need to bypass UAC you can set the batch file or it's shortcut to 'Run As Administrator' in the properties window.

[Jonj1611]

Many thanks, will create a batch file

[kompukare]

Was hoping for something a bit more controllable but a batch file will suffice if it comes to it.

Last time I wrote a batch file was in the dos days!

You could get away with only writing one batch file as a batch can take parameters:

TIMEOUT /T 10
START %1

or even with two parameters:

TIMEOUT /T %2
START %1

Save those as delayed delayedstart.bat (or .cmd) in Windows\System and call them with
delayedstart.bat notepad.exe
or
delayedstart.bat notepad.exe 15
to wait for 15 secs on the second example

[Jonj1611]

Yeah I might be better doing that, cheers mate