is there a way how to make programs startup in a certain order when windows starts?

what the title says is there a way how to make programs startup in a certain order when windows starts? Msconfig just shuts on or off is there a way how to arrange the things at start up in order?

 

Click on start>>All Programs>>Start UP and you should be able to drag programs in the start up programs menu in the order that you would like them to start in

 

Absolute Startup Manager

 

Is it possible to start a script before the desktop is built up?

 

You can run a script before login, and you could always put a script in the startup folder that starts all of the stuff you want in the sequence you would like it. A neat little utility for doing this kind of thing is AutoIt, which generates powerful scripts easily.

 

I have a little utility here called "After". I don't remember where I got it; but, I have been using it for years to delay certain things in the startup group and it works very well.

Example: I put an item into the startup group, then I add the path to AFTER.EXE just before the program I want to start and put in the number of seconds I want to delay the start.

Here's the target before adding the "AFTER" delay:
"C:\Program Files\AtomTime\ATOMTIME.EXE"

Here it is after adding the delay:
C:\EXE\After 40 "C:\Program Files\AtomTime\ATOMTIME.EXE"

The latter creates a forty-second delay.

I can't tell you where to find the AFTER program, perhaps at www.download.com. If you can't find it, send me a mail and I'll attach it to a reply. It's only 40 kilobytes.

 

Hi, Johnwill,

I know AutoIt! It's very nice.
But the items in the start-up folder always start after the desktop is completed.
If I want to modify items on the desktop, it doesn't work because the desktop is already there.

As for delaying, it's very easy to do in vbs.

 

You can run it in startup scripts that run before the startup folder is processed I guess. I've never had the need, so I haven't actually looked into this.