Delaying Startup order for certain programs

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I need to delay the startup of a messaging program (Winsent) until the
wireless network is established. Is it possible to tweak the order/time
taken for items to start up? This program is not in the Startup folder
btw. but is in the startup tab of msconfig. I have looked at TweakUI for
XP but it doesn't have an option for this.

I also looked at a KB article on startup dependencies but it seemed to
be beyond me.

Any suggestions please?
Many thanks.
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Robert M Jones said:
I need to delay the startup of a messaging program (Winsent) until
the wireless network is established. Is it possible to tweak the
order/time taken for items to start up? This program is not in the
Startup folder btw. but is in the startup tab of msconfig. I have
looked at TweakUI for XP but it doesn't have an option for this.

I also looked at a KB article on startup dependencies but it seemed
to be beyond me.
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Since networking is established before you login under a particular
account, you could remove the startup item from the registry Run key
and use Task Scheduler to load it "at logon". Then the program starts
when you login, not when you start Windows.
 
Vanguard said:
Since networking is established before you login under a particular
account, you could remove the startup item from the registry Run key and
use Task Scheduler to load it "at logon". Then the program starts when
you login, not when you start Windows.
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Now that one I haven't heard of - thanks.
Min you - the wireless network I have always seems to go down at logon
and then come back againafter about 30 seconds so we'll see.

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Robert said:
Now that one I haven't heard of - thanks.
Min you - the wireless network I have always seems to go down at logon
and then come back againafter about 30 seconds so we'll see.
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That worked nicely - at restart, and logon to the user account, I got no
error message from winsent which has loaded and seems happy that a
network is present. Thanks!

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