Comments on: Speed up slow Windows startup and boot with Startup Delayer

By: Oru

Oru — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 21:50:23 +0000

Wow, that was suprisingly useful! I have this program that uses Oracle as a back-end running on my laptop and having that bad boy load up after a minute allows me to at least get into my computer and use it! Thanks!

By: Geeli

Geeli — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 09:34:23 +0000

Great info! I will try it out and let you know how it goes. Hopefully it reduces the time it takes for Windows to load because mine is slow!

By: Simon

Simon — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 12:17:27 +0000

@Nathan

I wouldn’t say that’s normal, but it’s possible that after a couple of restarts you may find startup speed improves somewhat.

It’s certainly best not to move all your startup entries to Startup Delayer, especially the system ones as you could just make things slower. I personally only use it to delay the startup of 3rd party apps that load in the system tray to give the system processes time to load properly beforehand. I don’t delay my anti-virus either.

If you want to return any entries back to their original location, in the current release, all you need to do is to remove the delay.

So set the delay time to 0, or drag the slider all the way to the left (which should say, ‘Not Delayed’ or ‘No Delay’).

This will automatically move the item back to where it came from.

Hope this helps.

By: Nathan

Nathan — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 22:41:15 +0000

I have to say that on first restart my computer took much, much longer to startup, specifically when applying computer settings, is this normal?

If it happens again I’ll have to uninstall it.

By: Simon

Simon — Mon, 14 Dec 2009 22:34:10 +0000

In the article where it says “Startup Delayer” (in blue font) – that’s a link to the developer’s website.

By: mano

mano — Mon, 14 Dec 2009 13:12:29 +0000

How do I download this Startup Delayer program? I would like to use it, can’t find the link. Thanks.

By: RedMatrix

RedMatrix — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 05:35:39 +0000

Does this work with most Windows OS?

By: Simon

Simon — Tue, 23 Dec 2008 17:16:27 +0000

Hi, I’m struggling to find out how to return a startup to its original location by deleting it from Startup Delayer’s control. I’m using the program in safe mode as I don’t want to delete the startup completely, just return it to it’s original location. It says you can perform this function under safe mode but I’m unable to find out how! Am I missing something obvious? Any advice appreciated.

By: CRP

CRP — Sat, 04 Oct 2008 17:33:17 +0000

Thanks for the info, this is a great tool.

By: Ramesh @ The Geek Stuff

Ramesh @ The Geek Stuff — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 23:17:11 +0000

“Is your Windows startup or boot time very long? ” — Can anybody answer “No” to this?

I like the concept behind this application, where you can delay the startup of a particular program for x number of minutes. I just wonder how this will work out on an on-going basis. But, it is definitely worth a try. I’ll check it out.

Thanks for sharing.

Ramesh
The Geek Stuff