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Lord Bharath Bhushan Lohray

I would like to shut a few processes on system startup and change the
priorities of a few.

How do I do this? Can taskman.exe be used from command line or from a
..bat file?

Is there any other way?
 
Natively you can; Start\Settings\Control Panel\Administrative Tools\Computer
Management(Local)\System Information\Software Environment\Startup
Programs|View|Advanced, then in the "Location" column, you'll find the path
to the "Startup" location either in the "Startup" directories or from the
registry's "Run" keys. (note that this window is read-only so you must
manually navigate to the location below to edit or otherwise delete)

%ALLUSERSPROFILE%\Start Menu\Programs\Startup
%USERPROFILE%\Start Menu\Programs\Startup

You can delete the shortcuts that you no longer want to run.


HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run
HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run

You can delete the string value for the program you no longer want to run.

or copy msconfig from Windows XP to the "windows" directory
or AutoRuns from sysinternals
http://www.sysinternals.com/Utilities/Autoruns.html

Also;
For the services.

How to Delay Loading of Specific Services
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?kbid=193888

HOWTO: Control Device Driver Load Order
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;[LN];115486

To start applications sequentially create a shell script something like this
and place it in your \Startup directory.

-------------mystartup.cmd-------------
start "" "D:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\OFFICE11\outlook.exe"
start "" "D:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\OFFICE11\word.exe"
start "" "D:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\OFFICE11\excel.exe"
---------------end file------------------

For running priority you can use start command in a shell script something
like;
start "" /low "some program"
start /?
for the syntax


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Regards,

Dave Patrick ....Please no email replies - reply in newsgroup.
Microsoft Certified Professional
Microsoft MVP [Windows]
http://www.microsoft.com/protect

:
|I would like to shut a few processes on system startup and change the
| priorities of a few.
|
| How do I do this? Can taskman.exe be used from command line or from a
| .bat file?
|
| Is there any other way?
|
 
A million thanks...

What is the \startup directory? Is this the same as the start up folder
in the start\program menu ?

Bharath.
 
Yes it is. You're welcome.

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Regards,

Dave Patrick ....Please no email replies - reply in newsgroup.
Microsoft Certified Professional
Microsoft MVP [Windows]
http://www.microsoft.com/protect

:
|A million thanks...
|
| What is the \startup directory? Is this the same as the start up folder
| in the start\program menu ?
|
| Bharath.
 
One more thing I could not figure out...

START can start processes with priorities... How do I change priorities
of existing processes? Do I have to include it in the registry? how?

"/high someCommand" in the Run Key?

And I always do the following... When I connect to the internet using
dialup, I set my zoneAlarm priority to realtime and set it to normal
when I disconnect. I do not keep my download Manager on when not
connected. The firewall (also spyware watcher) must remail on at all
times. So how do I change priority of an instance of zonealarm.exe that
is already running?

Thank you...

Bharath.
 
You can use start command in a shell script something like;
start "" /low "some program"
start /?
for the syntax

Then place this in the \startup directory. As far as I know you'll need to
restart the process in order to change priority.

--

Regards,

Dave Patrick ....Please no email replies - reply in newsgroup.
Microsoft Certified Professional
Microsoft MVP [Windows]
http://www.microsoft.com/protect

:
| One more thing I could not figure out...
|
| START can start processes with priorities... How do I change priorities
| of existing processes? Do I have to include it in the registry? how?
|
| "/high someCommand" in the Run Key?
|
| And I always do the following... When I connect to the internet using
| dialup, I set my zoneAlarm priority to realtime and set it to normal
| when I disconnect. I do not keep my download Manager on when not
| connected. The firewall (also spyware watcher) must remail on at all
| times. So how do I change priority of an instance of zonealarm.exe that
| is already running?
|
| Thank you...
|
| Bharath.
 
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