Boot up

[peejaa]

Friend has an aged pc - takes forever to boot up, load XP windows, link to
internet etc and ready to go...he has no problem with that...he's gonna
upgrade one day...
....however, he also has an aged mother who often turns on the pc in the
mornings and starts clicking around before everything has loaded....he's
tried in vain to get her to cease this practice to no avail..

anyone know a way of displaying something on screen..an icon or whatever or
better still a text display when all the booting up windows loading programs
etc has been completed....saying something like:- OK, YOU CAN USE THE PC NOW
MUM.

 

[R. McCarty]

Even a older PC can be made to boot in a reasonable time. Just running
a defrag on the system volume will help. Also reviewing the startup entries
and maybe removing non-essential ones would speed things along.
If that's not a possibility, you might create a file that displays a
message
like you describe and place a shortcut to it in the "Startup" folder.
Usually
items here are loaded at the end of the bootup cycle.

 

[Pegasus]

Friend has an aged pc - takes forever to boot up, load XP windows, link to
internet etc and ready to go...he has no problem with that...he's gonna
upgrade one day...
...however, he also has an aged mother who often turns on the pc in the
mornings and starts clicking around before everything has loaded....he's
tried in vain to get her to cease this practice to no avail..

anyone know a way of displaying something on screen..an icon or whatever
or
better still a text display when all the booting up windows loading
programs
etc has been completed....saying something like:- OK, YOU CAN USE THE PC
NOW
MUM.

You could save the following two lines into the file "logon.vbs" which you
must place into the Startup folder of the "All Users" profile:

wscript.sleep 30000
msgbox "OK, you can use the PC now, Mum", 6, "Message from your PC"

Select a "sleep" time that is appropriate, e.g. 60,000 (=1 minute).

 

[Pegasus]

Friend has an aged pc - takes forever to boot up, load XP windows, link to
internet etc and ready to go...he has no problem with that...he's gonna
upgrade one day...
...however, he also has an aged mother who often turns on the pc in the
mornings and starts clicking around before everything has loaded....he's
tried in vain to get her to cease this practice to no avail..

anyone know a way of displaying something on screen..an icon or whatever
or
better still a text display when all the booting up windows loading
programs
etc has been completed....saying something like:- OK, YOU CAN USE THE PC
NOW
MUM.

Here is something a bit more up-market. It pops up a message telling your
mother to wait, then tells her to go ahead when the time is up. Remove the
line numbers before saving the code.

01. iDelay = 60 'seconds
02. Set oWshShell = CreateObject("WScript.Shell")
03. iTime = Timer
04. Do
05. oWshShell.Popup "Please wait while the PC settles down!", _
06. iDelay, "Message from your PC", 0
07. if Timer - iTime >= iDelay then Exit Do
08. Loop
09. MsgBox "OK, you can use the PC now, Mum", 6, "Message from your PC"

 

[DL]

I like it

Here is something a bit more up-market. It pops up a message telling your
mother to wait, then tells her to go ahead when the time is up. Remove the
line numbers before saving the code.

01. iDelay = 60 'seconds
02. Set oWshShell = CreateObject("WScript.Shell")
03. iTime = Timer
04. Do
05. oWshShell.Popup "Please wait while the PC settles down!", _
06. iDelay, "Message from your PC", 0
07. if Timer - iTime >= iDelay then Exit Do
08. Loop
09. MsgBox "OK, you can use the PC now, Mum", 6, "Message from your PC"

 

[Pegasus]

I like it

I hope the OP's mum likes it too . . .

 

[peejaa]

Here is something a bit more up-market. It pops up a message telling your
mother to wait, then tells her to go ahead when the time is up. Remove the
line numbers before saving the code.

01. iDelay = 60 'seconds
02. Set oWshShell = CreateObject("WScript.Shell")
03. iTime = Timer
04. Do
05. oWshShell.Popup "Please wait while the PC settles down!", _
06. iDelay, "Message from your PC", 0
07. if Timer - iTime >= iDelay then Exit Do
08. Loop
09. MsgBox "OK, you can use the PC now, Mum", 6, "Message from your PC"

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Thanks for that ...tried it out before sending to buddy...unsure if I,m
doing it correctly but all that happens is after Windows etc has loaded,
Word opens in which is the full 9 line code shown in text?

 

[Pegasus]

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Thanks for that ...tried it out before sending to buddy...unsure if I,m
doing it correctly but all that happens is after Windows etc has loaded,
Word opens in which is the full 9 line code shown in text?

Sorry, can't tell. You need to tell us ***where*** you saved the file and
under what ***name***. I suspect you made it a .txt file. This won't work.
It must be a .vbs file.

 

[peejaa]

Sorry, can't tell. You need to tell us ***where*** you saved the file and
under what ***name***. I suspect you made it a .txt file. This won't work.
It must be a .vbs file.

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Ah, that's ok..yes I had it as a txt file..changed to vbs and works ok...TVM
will pass this onto friend. Thanks.

 

[Kelly]

Another option, is not turn off the system and/or uncheck all options not
needed to load for a normal boot as well under Start/Run/Msconfig/Startup.

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All the Best,
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