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Speed Up Your Windows Startup Process With Startup Delayer

By on June 30, 2008

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One of the factors that can make your computer slow during startup process is having too many programs loaded automatically when Windows starts. During startup, all the programs that are set to start automatically on Windows startup will rush to load themselves at the same time. This can result in considerably slow boot up time because each startup program will try and grab CPU time so that it can load.

What if you have a lot of startup programs? This will definitely overload your computer resources. It will sometime take minutes to have all your startup files completely loaded. By that time, you already fall asleep! :D

One of the common solutions to this problem is by reducing the number of the startup files. This can be done by uncheck any startup item that are not necessary on the startup tab when you run ‘mscofig’ from the run command. That solution is good if you have startup items that you can remove. What if you can hardly find any item to uncheck?

Startup Delayer - Speed Up Your Boot Up Time

Introducing Startup Delayer. Startup Delayer is a small but handy freeware Windows application that allows you to setup how many seconds after Windows has started, to load each program. It enables you to set the order of startup programs launching and a time delay between each program.

For example, if you have your MSN messenger and antivirus program starting up, then you can set your antivirus program starts say 10 seconds after Windows has loaded, and then 10 seconds later to start your messenger.

By setting time delay between each startup program, you can reduce the CPU time used by startup programs at a given time. To see maximum result, you should figure out the right timing for your computer. This may take you several experimentations.

Startup Delayer is compatible with Windows 98/ME/2000/XP/Vista.

Download Startup Delayer Now | 996 KB

Steve Yu is a technology blogger with five years blogging experience (since 2007). He is the founder of MyTechQuest.com.

  • http://www.digitalproductsreview.net/blog/ Stephan Miller

    Thanks. I have needed something like this for a while. I usually start my laptop then make coffee and use the restroom. When I get back, my computer is still loading. I deleted everything from startup that was useless and it wasn’t much help. I installed this software and will give it a go the next time I reboot.

  • http://www.bluecirclet.com/index.php/blog/2008/07/more-opera-addons-extensions ameo

    hi there , nice to see you back .

    this is really good software , and i did noticed that at startup when all my software fights for the ram some times it jsut takes some more time that it should be taking , i used some trial software called faster startup [ i think] and it was really good ,

    but yours is way better :) thanks pro .

  • http://www.mytechquest.com Steve Yu

    ameo > Hi, ameo. Glad to see you leaving comment. :D Startup Delayer is a nice tool. Glad you like it. Do you use any other ways to speed up your startup process?

  • http://www.bluecirclet.com/index.php/blog/2008/07/more-opera-addons-extensions ameo

    TBH , i jsut removed fast startup and just deleted most of the application that opens at startup
    now it opens really coz it just load the antivirus , network monitor and opera ..
    ” run > msconfig ” rocks , but as i said i tested start up delayer and it works good ,
    i just realized that it doesn’t matter to have all applications opened at startup ?

    i’ll just open each one when needed

  • http://www.mytechquest.com Steve Yu

    ameo > that’s true, I don’t have much programs that loaded during startup. :D

  • http://www.niharsworld.com Nihar

    Nice to see you back with a good post. I guess i used this kind of tool before. but now not using it. Let me give a try…

  • http://www.kongtechnology.com hyperX

    Yes. No offense but msconfig method does a better fast job without you installing another program into your computer. Perhaps this delayer is for starter that does not know which program is for which program in msconfig.

  • http://www.mytechquest.com Steve Yu

    hyperX > ya, agree with you. This application should works best for newbies who are unfamiliar with msconfig.