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StartLater: delay the launch of a program when Windows starts

The StartLater utility starts a program after a certain number of milliseconds. StartLater is mainly used to start an application when Windows has fully started. This prevents your application from having the focus stolen by another which has not finished loading. Example: OneDrive.

By default, StartLater plays an audio file and then starts Thunderbird after a specified delay.

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Installation and Configuration

• Extract the StartLater.zip archive at the root of disk C for example;
• You then obtain the C:folder;
• Place yourself in this folder;
• Press Enter on the file:Create Startup icon.vbs This creates the StartLater.lnk icon in the Windows Startup folder. You can rename it by pressing enter on Go to startup folder.

If you want to change the audio file, delay and application to start:

• Rename startLater-config.ini to StartLater.ini.
  
• Press enter on it to open it in notepad;
• Change the delay after DelayMS= . Write this delay in milliseconds;
  
• Write the application path after ExePath= ;
• Write the path of the audio file in wav format after soundPath= ;
• You can test your INI file by pressing Enter on StartLater.exe;

Remarks :

• If the soundPath variable contains an invalid path: startLater will not play an audio file and will move on;
• If the DelaYMS variable contains a value greater than 0: This delay will begin after playing the audio file if there is one;
• If the exePath variable contains an invalid path: startLater will do nothing and will stop.

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