But unfortunately, it puts all your startup programs into some kind of 'box' which, even if you aren't delaying a particular program with Startup Delayer
Only the programs you've installed before StartupDelayer and even these ones could be restored to the original place, no trouble.
Umm, Tech for most people that will be all of them. And, l question that apps can be
properly restored. I know Startup Delayer uses that term and you can remove the delay, but even this action still keeps the app in the 'box', and some apps do NOT like that. Two of my apps fail to start correctly because Startup Delayer does not handle them correctly, even with NO delay. I cannot see how to make Startup Delayer leave an app alone completely - and I have done extensive testing with Startup Delayer since r2studios released it years ago. So I disagree. Make sure you are using the latest version.
Anyway, I went searching for a simple command line tool which would allow me to specify just one program to delay, without touching anything else at all.
Startup Delayer could do it. No problem.
Like how?...Bearing in mind what I said above. If you want a delayer that handles the 'job' well,
without 'interfering' with the way an app starts use this:
http://www.joejoesoft.com/vcms/113/. It's also free.
Avast is the last thing to appear on my taskbar (I have 9 taskbar apps), and I can log off / on as rapidly as I wish with no problems caused with the other apps / taskbar icons.
avast icon does NOT mess any system tray icon... other thing could mess it, not avast icon, for sure.
How can you possibly be so sure? I am not
slagging off Avast here - in my experiences with NOD32, Kaspersky and now Avast, it seems that the loading of an AV tool at startup can, in some way, under some circumstances, interfere with the smooth startup of other apps. What combination of that, plus the clumsy way Windows does it anyway, is responsible for what exactly, I can't be sure. We already know that the Avast update procedure can cause some people problems - several have had to try 'tweaking' avast4.ini to overcome that (including me), so how can you say Avast doesn't 'mess' with anything. I wouldn't have put it that way, but clearly there are issues as Vlk himself has confirmed.
Edit: Incidentally, I'm not actually saying that the Avast
'icon' messes with anything...
If you need a tool to help add a new Startup entry in Windows, I would suggest this: http://www.snapfiles.com/get/starter.html.
I've tested in the past... I can't remember why I've stopped to recommend this tool, something was wrong but I can't remember.
Make sure you have the latest version 5.6.2.8, which includes many improvements and fixes. Starter is an excellent tool, has worked for me for years. If you can remember what the problem is / was, I may be able to help or shed some light on it. Starter gets good reviews now.
There are people in this forum, and specifically Epsi in this thread, who have startup issues. So, as I've had similar experiences, I'm trying to solve them for myself in a practical way and share those experiences - that's all. In fact I'm now using 'StartRight' since last night (the link I gave you above) which does a similar job to Startup Delayer. Results so far are that
everything loads as it should using the default settings in StartRight,
and I get no failures even if I log off / on rapidly. It's worth trying. Windows startup problems plague many people it seems, which is why there are all these handy utilities available on the web - and there are
so many of them addressing startup issues. That tells us what an ongoing issue this is, regardless of how
good an application otherwise might be.
Jeremy