The Old New Thing

How can I wait until all startup applications have finished launching?

November 12, 2014 Nov 12, 2014 11/12/14

Raymond Chen

A customer wanted to know how to detect that all startup applications have finished launching. They wanted to wait until everything settled down before proceeding with some task. What if two programs did this? Suppose two programs both wanted to detect that all startup applications have finished launching. Each one would sit there waiting ...