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[Simmer]

Unfortunately I've got vista and my booting is quite slow.

I was wondering if there is any software that i can time up the programs that boot up. What i want to do is make my antivirus start after all the programs that boot up. This will make my booting much Faster since the files of the programs that load will not be checked every time I open my PC. I know it might not be good to do such a thing for security reasons but still i want to try this at least.

[Walle]

Ok, there is probably a better way to do it, but here's something I just thought of. You could activate the old fashioned autoexec.bat (if it's not activated), and then append the commands to start the antivirus software to the end of autoexec.bat

Wether or not the autoexec is executed depends on the value in Software\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon\ParseAutoexec within HKEY_CURRENT_USER. If the value is 1, autoexec.bat is executed, if the value is 0, it's not executed.

I don't know how well oriented you are in batch files (Most people I meet today have long forgotten how to use them), but creating a pause by issuing the "pause" command is not a good idea, since it will wait for a keypress by the user.

You could try: "TYPE NUL | CHOICE.COM /N /CY /TY,5 >NUL" where you can edit the number 5 to represent a pause between 1 and 99 seconds

If you need a time log, there are several ways to do it, but I'm not sure which method works in Vista, but you could try the following:

ECHO. |TIME > TIME
COPY LOG +TIME

It requires you to create a 0-byte file called "log" first, or else You will receive the error message "Content of destination lost before copy".

Good luck