MSN Messenger

littledave · 21 May 2010 at 17:43

Im looking for a way to delay the start of MSN messenger, with my PC now booting so quickly messenger starts before my network connection so it doesnt auto sign in.

I have MSN running in compatibility mode also as I couldnt get used to it on my task bar and not in the tray.

Lakeland · 21 May 2010 at 17:58

Pin it to the taskbar and start it manually if your pc is fast

littledave · 21 May 2010 at 18:28

Lakeland said:
Pin it to the taskbar and start it manually if your pc is fast

Then I might aswell click sign in manually. The whole idea is for it to sign in automatically as I often forget.

Deception · 21 May 2010 at 18:39

Tried the "sign in automatically when i am connected to the internet" combined with the start when windows logs in.. Ive never tried, but one would assume it would start with windows and then start once connection comes available.. but this is msn after all, so im probably wrong haha!

markweatherill · 21 May 2010 at 18:41

You could put a script in the startup folder that waits for a while and then starts Messenger (although it's been Windows Live for quite some time! 'MSN' is what the parents of teenagers call it).
I don't know how, but I'm sure it could be done with a script.

Infam0us · 21 May 2010 at 22:08

All this effort when you could just do it manually? If you forget to do it then surely its not that important to you?

Fanatic · 22 May 2010 at 00:17

I had a quick go at this:

Code:

@ping 127.0.0.1 -n 10
START msnmsgr.exe

Saved as a .bat, put in your startup folder. Though you will see the command prompt window as it pings 10 times. Seems there is no WAIT command so ping a few times to make a delay instead.

There is almost certainly a better way to do it.

Dinkas · 23 May 2010 at 00:44

A slight amendment to the above (direct the ping output to NULL device to stop the cmd window filling with faff).

Code:

@echo Delaying MSN startup, please wait...
@ping 127.0.0.1 -n 20 >NUL
@start msnmsgr /background

Don't forget to disable "Automatically run Windows Live Messenger" in its options!

Or there's this

Edit:
Rather than putting the .bat in your startup folder, create a shortcut instead and put that in there, then set the properties of the shortcut to run minimized.