delaying items loading at startup from the registry ?

Kristok

how do i delay something loading in the registry ? basically i want msn to auto load but dont want it to do so straight away as my router is connected but i want to do a pppoe connection in windows for torrents to have access to all ports so want to have msn wait for about 30sec before it trys to connect so that it dosnt get all confused as to which connection it is on. Anyone know how i can do this ?

Chucky

First, set MSN not to load from start-up (In MSN go to Tools -> Options -> General and at the top, uncheck the checkbox). Then, create a batch file as follows:

sleep.exe 30
C:\Program Files\MSN Messenger\msnmsgr.exe

Place the batch file in the Startup folder and it will load from startup. However, you will need to download the sleep.exe file. You can get it here: http://www.computerhope.com/dutil.htm (two-fifths the way down the page).

This isn't ideal for you but it still fundamentally does what you want.

Cryos

Chucky wrote:

First, set MSN not to load from start-up (In MSN go to Tools -> Options -> General and at the top, uncheck the checkbox). Then, create a batch file as follows:

sleep.exe 30
C:\Program Files\MSN Messenger\msnmsgr.exe

Place the batch file in the Startup folder and it will load from startup. However, you will need to download the sleep.exe file. You can get it here: http://www.computerhope.com/dutil.htm (two-fifths the way down the page).

This isn't ideal for you but it still fundamentally does what you want.

Good Ol' Sleep.exe the admins companion.

Anyways, thats probably the best way of doing it! But i have a question, why not just double click your MSN Messenger desktop/quicklaunch/start menu icon ?

Would that not be the simplest solution?

Chucky

Blitz wrote:

why not just double click your MSN Messenger desktop/quicklaunch/start menu icon ?

I concur!

Kristok

could just click on it but wheres the fun in that ;-)