Startup Delayer Freeware

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I just put this on my PC. It seems to have speeded my start-up.


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This program is available from 'r2 studios' at
http://r2.com.au

along with some other interesting items and
the other good news is that it's freeware.

Startup Delayer


...Can you learn another language in the time it takes for
your machine to boot? Do you turn on your PC when you go to
bed, so it's finished booting by the time you get home from
work the next day?

When Windows loads its Startup file, it attempts to load every
program in there at the same time. Therefore if you have quite
a lot of programs starting when Windows starts, each program
will try and grab CPU time so that it can load.

If each program tries to do this at the same time, you soon
notice the slow down that occurs, due to your CPU trying to
help all the programs to load, and your hard disk accessing
multiple files.

Startup Delayer allows you to setup how many seconds after
Windows has started, to load each program.

For Example:
If you have your mail program and a special clock starting up,
then you can make your mail start say 10 seconds after Windows
has loaded, and then the special clock start 20 seconds after
Windows Starts.... Compatable with Windows 9x/ME/NT/2000/XP

I suspect that users with older, slower hardware, and RAM-limited
systems will see the greatest benefit from this kind of tool: In those
systems, heavy file access during startup can make the hard drive quite
a bottleneck. The more RAM you have, and the faster your CPU and drive
are, the less you'll notice such bottlenecking, and therefore the less
beneficial a "delayer" tool will be.

But as this is a free download, it wouldn't hurt for anyone to give it
a try.