After a long delay, I've published another Coding 4 Fun article.   This one is a good start toward optimizing Windows startup.   It scans your Startup folder and will start the items at boot-time instead of Windows.   The advantage is that it can insert a delay between each application, or even wait for an idle CPU before launching one.   It uses user controls, a background worker, threading, and a number of other cool features.   This will be my last XP/VS2005 article.   Everyone should be on Visual Studio 2008 now!   As for Vista, well I'll try to make things work in both OS's unless it's a very Vista-specific feature that I'm exploiting.   Enjoy!

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