Startup Folder Sequence

[Sid Knee]

I'm curious .... is there any way to determine/set the sequence of
running programs in the startup folder?

 

[Jerold Schulman]

I'm curious .... is there any way to determine/set the sequence of
running programs in the startup folder?

You can remove the shortcuts from the Startup folder and use a batch file in the startup folder.

Startup.bat would contain shortcuts, like:

@echo off
"C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Start Menu\Programs\Microsoft FrontPage.lnk"
sleep 2
"C:\Documents and Settings\Jerry\Favorites\jsi_orders.lnk"

Jerold Schulman
Windows Server MVP
JSI, Inc.
http://www.jsiinc.com
http://www.jsifaq.com

 

[Sid Knee]

You can remove the shortcuts from the Startup folder and use a batch file in the startup folder.

Startup.bat would contain shortcuts, like:

@echo off
"C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Start Menu\Programs\Microsoft FrontPage.lnk"
sleep 2
"C:\Documents and Settings\Jerry\Favorites\jsi_orders.lnk"

Good idea .... thanks, Jerold.

 

[Jim Howes]

@echo off
"C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Start Menu\Programs\Microsoft FrontPage.lnk"
sleep 2
"C:\Documents and Settings\Jerry\Favorites\jsi_orders.lnk"

Yes, very good, apart from the unfortunate "'sleep' is not recognized as an
internal or external command, operable program or batch file." error at line 3.
(Have you been at the unix again?)

 

[John John]

Yes, very good, apart from the unfortunate "'sleep' is not recognized as an
internal or external command, operable program or batch file." error at line 3.
(Have you been at the unix again?)

It's a Resource Kit utility, you can download it on the Microsoft web
site. If you don't want to or cannot use sleep.exe you can have the
batch file call another batch file that does nothing (to spend time
between the commands) or have it ping the loopback address with set
timeout. But it's simpler and easier to use sleep.

John