# Startup delayer

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/startup-delayer/126876>\
**Category:** Ruby\
**Created:** [January 23, 2008, 1:05am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/startup-delayer/126876 "2008-01-23T01:05:23Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 2\
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**Author:** ![Junkone](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/e274bd/32.png) [@Junkone](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Junkone)\
**Post date:** [January 23, 2008, 1:05am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/startup-delayer/126876/1 "2008-01-23T01:05:23Z")

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hello  
I run few ruby programs from windows startup. sometimes, it looks very  
slow becoz xp is trying to startup a few programs. is there a way i  
can delay the startup so that these ruby prog start after xp is fully  
loaded.

seede

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**Author:** ![Junkone](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/e274bd/32.png) [@Junkone](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Junkone)\
**Post date:** [January 23, 2008, 2:25am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/startup-delayer/126876/2 "2008-01-23T02:25:52Z")

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Junkone wrote:

> hello  
> I run few ruby programs from windows startup. sometimes, it looks very  
> slow becoz xp is trying to startup a few programs. is there a way i  
> can delay the startup so that these ruby prog start after xp is fully  
> loaded.
> 
> seede

Create a ruby program whose first line is:

sleep(10)

After that line add lines that will execute your ruby programs, e.g.

system(‘ruby myprog.rb’)