Program order in Auto-Start

[Guest]

Hello,

Can anyone tell me if it is possible to select the order programs start in
autostart (the ones listed in
HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run).

Thank you

Brian

 

[Stan Brown]

in
microsoft.public.windowsxp.general:

Can anyone tell me if it is possible to select the order programs start in
autostart (the ones listed in
HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run).

I can tell you: it's not.

There are some undocumented techniques that people rely on, but
there's no guarantee they'll work after the next Windows patch. The
only 100% reliable way is to start things in the order you want
from a script or batch file. See

http://blogs.msdn.com/oldnewthing/archive/2003/12/25/45926.aspx

and pay particular attention to comments by Raymond Chen.