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Startup Delayer 3.0.319

by Lee Collins

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13 Dec 2011

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Verdict

Enables you to quickly stop or delay applications from starting with your PC so you can analyse potential issues

Review Rating: rating

Type: Free for personal use only

Platform: Windows XP, Windows Vista, Windows 7 64-bit, Windows 7, Windows Vista 64-bit

Manufacturer: r2 Studios

Size: 980Kb

Number of Downloads: 2825

Price: Free

This is the software publisher’s description.

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 boots, it attempts to load every application within your Startup file 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 clock that needs to synchronise with the Internet, you could make your mail start say 10 seconds after Windows has loaded, and then the clock start 20 seconds after Windows Starts.

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