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Old December 19th 05, 05:24 AM posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.perform_maintain
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I have XP Pro. Is there a means to modify the Start Process? Problem... I
use MSN Messenger... MSN starts before Internet connection occurs and so the
auto feature does not operate... Is there a way to modify the Start Process
to have the Internet connect before any programs begin to load?
Thanks
KRB
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Old December 19th 05, 11:34 AM posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.perform_maintain
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"KRB" wrote in message
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I have XP Pro. Is there a means to modify the Start Process? Problem...
I
use MSN Messenger... MSN starts before Internet connection occurs and so
the
auto feature does not operate... Is there a way to modify the Start
Process
to have the Internet connect before any programs begin to load?
Thanks
KRB


Had a problem with this myself so....

I wrote myself a little utility called startDelay which runs at startup.
It then waits a number of seconds and launches a program.
Using it for MSN and Yahoo Messenger - as you say they (sometimes) try to
auto connect before any connection is established much of the time.

If you want to try startDelay then you can get it from my webspace:
http://www.warwound.dsl.pipex.com/files/startDelay.rar

It's a 174KB RAR archive - check the ReadMe.txt file for usage instructions.

Martin.


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Old December 19th 05, 11:49 AM posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.perform_maintain
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I thank you... I will look at it and check it out... Thanks again.
KRB

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"KRB" wrote in message
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I have XP Pro. Is there a means to modify the Start Process? Problem...
I
use MSN Messenger... MSN starts before Internet connection occurs and so
the
auto feature does not operate... Is there a way to modify the Start
Process
to have the Internet connect before any programs begin to load?
Thanks
KRB


Had a problem with this myself so....

I wrote myself a little utility called startDelay which runs at startup.
It then waits a number of seconds and launches a program.
Using it for MSN and Yahoo Messenger - as you say they (sometimes) try to
auto connect before any connection is established much of the time.

If you want to try startDelay then you can get it from my webspace:
http://www.warwound.dsl.pipex.com/files/startDelay.rar

It's a 174KB RAR archive - check the ReadMe.txt file for usage instructions.

Martin.


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Old December 19th 05, 03:03 PM posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.perform_maintain
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You can program MSN messenger not to start at boot.
Sign in/tools/options/on the left side/ general and click on not to start
automatically.

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Old December 20th 05, 12:53 AM posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.perform_maintain
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Thnaks Andre for the response, My attempt is to auto start MSN. Martin gave
me the tool to accomplish this and it is working for what I need. Thanks
again for tor responding.
KRB

"Andre DeLemarre" wrote:

You can program MSN messenger not to start at boot.
Sign in/tools/options/on the left side/ general and click on not to start
automatically.

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Andre DeLemarre



 




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