Is there a way to run a service a set time after Windows starts?

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I have a program that works as a service and works with the
network on a low level. It appears that a service it starts too
early, so I want to configure it so that it starts after Windows
starts, ie after all the stuff in the Registry etc are started.

I am thinking along the lines of the Windows equivalent of /etc/
rc.local in Linux, or even after /etc/rc.local has run.

Any ideas

A couple of ideas:

First, you should be able to identify the dependencies of your service
and set the service to wait for those dependencies to be met before
starting.

Second, if not, as an alternative you can set the service to start
manually and use a startup script (set in group policy editor) or a
LocalMachine Run registry entry to start it up.

Zaphod

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