Help me with a auto startup script (1 Viewer)

[mr viggo]

Until now, I have just put a shortcut to the specific .exe in the autostart folder and that works great.

But there's a particular .exe that launches to fast and I want it to be delayed for like 5 seconds at win start up. So can anybody point me in the right direction to do this, please.

 

[rekenaar]

You can create a batch file and some smart scripting to cater for the delay.

Then you will end up with the pmsleep.bat file from above as well as something of your own, lets say mystartup.bat, similar to this:

@echo off
rem wait 10 seconds
call pmsleep 10
rem ------------
rem start next program
start myprogram.exe

save both files to the exe's directory and add mystartup.bat to your windows startup folder.

 

[mr viggo]

Ok, so I'm at this again. I had a really simple working .vbs-script long time ago but I can't find anywhere. It was delay of 15 seconds launching an lnk -> exe.

The .vbs was located in my autostart folder, pointing to a simple win shortcut file that launched an exe in a minimized window. If I recall correctly, it looked kinda like this:

@echo off

delay 15000
run c:\user\desktop\shortcut.lnk
end

Perhaps a line or two more but not much more..

Help please, I'm really lost on this one and google doesn't seem to be much help.


Edit: solved it, created a start.bat and put it in startup folder

@ECHO OFF

TIMEOUT /T 15
REM Total Delay = 15 seconds
START /min "" "[I]path to file[/I].exe"