Need to delay a startup program ...

[Guest]

Hello Group:


Is there a batch command that will delay a program from
starting up when the computer boots up? I need a program
to wait a user defined number of seconds.

Any and all help would be appreciated.


Thanks,


wmk

 

[Guest]

AFAIK not a built-in one.
There *was* however a SLEEP.EXE in the windows 2000 resource kit that
enables you to do just that.
The windows 2003 resource kit has it too.
Usage: sleep time-to-sleep-in-seconds
download cmdutils.zip from http://www.paulsadowski.com/WSH/cmdprogs.htm

 

[Jon]

Could do it easily within vbscript (copy into notepad and save with .vbs
extension, placing a shortcut in your startup folder)


Set WshShell = WScript.CreateObject("WScript.Shell")
numberofseconds = 10
numberofseconds = numberofseconds *1000
wscript.sleep numberofseconds
wshshell.run """c:\filetorun.exe"""



Jon