Delay application launch windows 7

I needed to delay for 1min some application at PC startup after the network connection I used standard build in Windows Task scheduler. Leverage windows task scheduler, screenshot shows delay option you need Create a task in the scheduler Go to the Triggers tab and click New Set Begin the task to At log on Check Delay task for and enter anything between seconds to hours windows task scheduler. Alex Bevan Alex Bevan 11 1 1 bronze badge. If the image link breaks, your answer is no longer valid.

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You are talking about the paid version of the program and we are talking about the free version and specifically telling you not to bother with the paid version. For this article, the free version we talk about serves the purpose that is required of it. Nothing really works for all programs in Windows The only thing that works for me is creating 2 types of scripts in notepad : Startlist.

For Admin programs, run StartlistAdmin. Example of a vbs script:. Hope this is helpful. Thanks, Raymond!! So the script would look like this to delay startup of the program for 10 seconds. You put a timeout command after each program you want delayed. Maybe someone else could help with this? Raymond : Thank you very much, your information is the best, clear, precise, and to the point always. I have been using a tool called Chameleon Startup Manager.

It is very nice and have the option of different startup profiles. I have tried Autorun Organizer but it does not have the fuction to dely programs under XP otherwise, it runs fine though. Thank you for this info, even in it is useful.

I needed to delay the startup of Origin and Steam while my VPN is connecting else they fail, then I have to reopen them and re-enter my passwords. Startup Delayer works great on Windows 10, my problem is solved, they start up when the connection is working. Great tools, but the easiest solution that should be added here would be Soluto.

Great interface, too. In actual fact, if you really search around the web you will find a lot of users complain that Soluto actually slows their boot process down!! Pkshadow 8 months ago. HAL Author 8 months ago. Hector 1 year ago. Micke 3 years ago. Honzo 3 years ago. Without some clues or examples of that some of these certain programs are Are these programs or Services or both? I'm pretty sure that you can't delay the startup of a program with msconfig or Autoruns.

Maybe somebody will tell us how to do that. There are some free third party tools that will allow you to delay the startup of programs and you can find some with a Google search:. I wish to delay the start of certain programs to speed up boot up