Alternative autostart method (used in windows 7 pro)

[tesco]

Hi all, first post so please be gentle!

I have been using this great little program (version 5.4) for a number of years without a hitch. However I recently updated to Windows 7 pro (which, by the way, is VERY good, it actually works!). I use the iTunes plug-in by Gareth Price (thanks for writing that!) to display current track info etc. However using the autostart feature in LCDsmartie threw a COM / CLSID error on LCDSmartie's start-up. This went away if LCDSmartie was closed then restarted manually after iTunes starts (I have iTunes auto start at logon). What I wanted was a way to delay the running of LCDSmartie. I tried various start-up delay programs but with no success. Then I stumbled across this idea. A short VBS script with a shortcut to it in the start-up folder. It works a treat. Just open notepad and copy the text below into it. You will have to modify the path to your LCDSmartie.exe files location, and you can change the delay if necessary. Then simply save it as something like LCDScript.VBS and place a shortcut to it in your start-up folder. I personally used the excellent Glary Utilities to add a start-up entry but don't see why a shortcut in the start-up folder wouldn't work. Don't forget to disable the auto start with windows function within LCDSmartie.

set WshShell = WScript.CreateObject("WScript.Shell" )

'Wait 90 seconds
wscript.sleep 90000

'Run LCDSmartie
wshshell.Run """C:\LCD2USB\lcd_smartie_v5.4\LCDSmartie.exe"""


Any comments gratefully received, enjoy!

Tesco

[GizmoTheGreen]

why not just use a batfile?