Posts by Kangaroo

1) Message boards : BOINC Manager : How to make it start minimized (in SysTray) ? (Message 2003)
Posted 16 Dec 2005 by Kangaroo
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Hi all. I had this problem too (boinc manager freezes at start up). And thanks to all the ideas in this thread i ended up with the following "easy to do" script, to delay the start of as many applications as you want, since delayexec only works for one program at a time. Thus, Boinc's problem is fixed and windows starts quickly.

the script:
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var Delay_Exec= WScript.CreateObject("WScript.Shell");
WScript.Sleep(10000); //wait 10 sec., in milisec.

//run Boinc /s
Delay_Exec.Run("path_to_application\\\\BOINC\\\\boincmgr.exe /s");
WScript.Sleep(5000); //wait 5 seconds
//and run another application
Delay_Exec.popup("Running Cacheman",3,"Delay_exec",0+64); //Alert the user
Delay_Exec.Run("path_to_application\\\\Cacheman\\\\Cacheman.exe");
WScript.Sleep(5000);
//...and another
//...
//...
//...and repeat as many times as you want

WScript.Quit(); //Bye bye

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Here, path_to_application is the path, usually "c:\\\\Program Files", where you have installed the program you want to run. As i have the spanish version, i had found that we (spanish) must use the short name "c:\\\\Archiv~1" (almost in my computer it is true). So if you have troubles in your language, try the short name that you can see with "dir /x" in the command line.

And save this with some descriptive name as "Delay.js", create a shorcut in startup, and you're done (of course, remove the entries in the startup folder of the applications that you run in this way). I hope this serve someone (it works for me :).

..And another thing that looks a bit strange: when I shutdown my computer I often see a small window telling me that some application crashed. Unfortunately this window disappeares withing a fraction of a second, so I'm not sure about this, but the first time I've seen it was after I installed the BOINC-manager...


You can check wich application has failed, with the control panel\\management tools\\event viewer (i hope that this will be the name in english...)

Thanks to all, regards.



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