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Control of Startup Program Order
I would like to be able to control the order in which WinXP (32b) loads
the various programs set to load at startup. I have tried various utilities that I have found on the web and none of them that I have found are successful at actually controlling the load order. Can this be done from within XP? I have looked at the MSCONFIG settings in the registry and there does not seem to be a way to define load order. Thanks in advance for any help/advice, Neil H. |
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Control of Startup Program Order
I don't believe XP has that capability so you will have to rely on 3rd party
software. Have you tried this one: http://www.snapfiles.com/get/startdelay.html -- Regards Ron Badour MS MVP Windows Desktop Experience "Neil H" [email protected] wrote in message ... I would like to be able to control the order in which WinXP (32b) loads the various programs set to load at startup. I have tried various utilities that I have found on the web and none of them that I have found are successful at actually controlling the load order. Can this be done from within XP? I have looked at the MSCONFIG settings in the registry and there does not seem to be a way to define load order. Thanks in advance for any help/advice, Neil H. |
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Control of Startup Program Order
"Neil H" [email protected] wrote in message ... I would like to be able to control the order in which WinXP (32b) loads the various programs set to load at startup. I have tried various utilities that I have found on the web and none of them that I have found are successful at actually controlling the load order. Can this be done from within XP? I have looked at the MSCONFIG settings in the registry and there does not seem to be a way to define load order. Thanks in advance for any help/advice, Neil H. Here's one way of doing it: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/193888 and here's a non-MS explanation of the above: http://www.petri.co.il/delay_service...00_xp_2003.htm SC Tom |
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Control of Startup Program Order
Neil H wrote:
I would like to be able to control the order in which WinXP (32b) loads the various programs set to load at startup. I have tried various utilities that I have found on the web and none of them that I have found are successful at actually controlling the load order. Can this be done from within XP? I have looked at the MSCONFIG settings in the registry and there does not seem to be a way to define load order. Thanks in advance for any help/advice, Neil H. SC gave you probably the closest you can come with XP to controlling that natively and especially the second link is informative. There ARE some 3rd party apps that claim to do this too but I'd like to point someting out to you. Delay Starts are pretty good ways and the only realistic thing you can do. BUT ... realize that, if you are going by the appearance of the icons in the systray or onscreen hints: -- Various things take longer than others to get fully started. -- Thus, getting a particular task to start first does not mean it will be the first to be completely loaded and ready to use, especially if it takes it a long time because it has a lot of work to do. AV is often something people are concerned about this way. -- The ones to finish loading first are generally the smaller, faster programs, regardless of whether they start first or much later in the process. Many programs are trying to load in parallel during boot so the shorter ones have a decided advantage of being up and ready first. -- Appearance of the icon doesn't mean the program is fully initiated. It simply means the program tossed up the icon for the systray. So, it's when they FINISH loading that's important in most, not all, cases. BUT, take AV for instance; it starts to load early in the process but is one of the last to display its icon. However, it's begining to do its job long before you see the icon. Cetain protection mechanisms load first; all the gui and nicety stuff loads last. But it's protecting you before you see the icon appear. Unfortunately I can't find any of the links I got this info from so I can't include links for verification; sorry. HTH, Twayne |
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One could also ask, is there a particular reason for this?
"Neil H" [email protected] wrote in message ... I would like to be able to control the order in which WinXP (32b) loads the various programs set to load at startup. I have tried various utilities that I have found on the web and none of them that I have found are successful at actually controlling the load order. Can this be done from within XP? I have looked at the MSCONFIG settings in the registry and there does not seem to be a way to define load order. Thanks in advance for any help/advice, Neil H. |
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Control of Startup Program Order
DL wrote:
One could also ask, is there a particular reason for this? "Neil H" [email protected] wrote in message ... I would like to be able to control the order in which WinXP (32b) loads the various programs set to load at startup. I have tried various utilities that I have found on the web and none of them that I have found are successful at actually controlling the load order. Can this be done from within XP? I have looked at the MSCONFIG settings in the registry and there does not seem to be a way to define load order. Thanks in advance for any help/advice, Neil H. The reason is a long explanation. I have a Gigabyte mobo whose BIOS used to fully support all overclocking variables and now will not; latest version installed and Gigabyte has no answers. So I have to use their utility program, EasyTune5Pro, to overclock. It works ok within its limits, not as many variable settings and it is the last to load at boot. It is only my opinion but the computer seems to boot faster when the BIOS was in control of these settings so I am trying to get their utility to boot first or second so that the rest of the program loading can take advantage of the extra speed provided by the overclocking. Maybe Iam just to anal but it always bugged me that the BIOS "gave up the ghost" so to speak and I am reduced to their meager utility. Neil |
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"Neil H" [email protected] wrote in message ... DL wrote: One could also ask, is there a particular reason for this? "Neil H" [email protected] wrote in message ... I would like to be able to control the order in which WinXP (32b) loads the various programs set to load at startup. I have tried various utilities that I have found on the web and none of them that I have found are successful at actually controlling the load order. Can this be done from within XP? I have looked at the MSCONFIG settings in the registry and there does not seem to be a way to define load order. Thanks in advance for any help/advice, Neil H. The reason is a long explanation. I have a Gigabyte mobo whose BIOS used to fully support all overclocking variables and now will not; latest version installed and Gigabyte has no answers. So I have to use their utility program, EasyTune5Pro, to overclock. It works ok within its limits, not as many variable settings and it is the last to load at boot. It is only my opinion but the computer seems to boot faster when the BIOS was in control of these settings so I am trying to get their utility to boot first or second so that the rest of the program loading can take advantage of the extra speed provided by the overclocking. Maybe Iam just to anal but it always bugged me that the BIOS "gave up the ghost" so to speak and I am reduced to their meager utility. Neil You can always re-flash with the old BIOS file if it was done correctly. SC Tom |
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SC Tom wrote:
"Neil H" [email protected] wrote in message ... DL wrote: One could also ask, is there a particular reason for this? "Neil H" [email protected] wrote in message ... I would like to be able to control the order in which WinXP (32b) loads the various programs set to load at startup. I have tried various utilities that I have found on the web and none of them that I have found are successful at actually controlling the load order. Can this be done from within XP? I have looked at the MSCONFIG settings in the registry and there does not seem to be a way to define load order. Thanks in advance for any help/advice, Neil H. The reason is a long explanation. I have a Gigabyte mobo whose BIOS used to fully support all overclocking variables and now will not; latest version installed and Gigabyte has no answers. So I have to use their utility program, EasyTune5Pro, to overclock. It works ok within its limits, not as many variable settings and it is the last to load at boot. It is only my opinion but the computer seems to boot faster when the BIOS was in control of these settings so I am trying to get their utility to boot first or second so that the rest of the program loading can take advantage of the extra speed provided by the overclocking. Maybe Iam just to anal but it always bugged me that the BIOS "gave up the ghost" so to speak and I am reduced to their meager utility. Neil You can always re-flash with the old BIOS file if it was done correctly. SC Tom Tried it several times with 3 different old BIOS files, no luck; but good thought! Neil |
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