Object Dock Boot Startup

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Hello peoples! 

Wondering if someone out there might be able to give me some pointers. Ive been trying to figure out a way to get my object dock to start up faster when i boot up my PC. It seems that my pc chooses to load object dock last after all other auto startup programs.  Im not a fan of standby or hibernation so this isnt a option. Upon searching for a way to do this ive stumbled upon NeXus Dock which has a feature called Fast boot. I installed it to see what that dock was all about and man does it do exactly that. The second i get past the logon screen, their dock is immediately loaded. Its so fast. Its actually quite crazy. Not gunna lie. I really love it. LOL. 

Their dock tho has a few issues that i dont like and really would prefer to continue using Objectdock as ive used it for what seems forever.. 

Looking further into how winstep is doing this, Its quite interesting. Their program isnt faster really but they are using some reg Runonce cheat. I guess its also a cheat that adobe uses to have their program startup right away. It bypasses windows normal start up and forces the dock to start up right away with no delay. 

I was hoping that someone out their with a big brain might be able to explain how i can make object dock do this :) 

 

 

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Reply #1 from Stardock Forums Top

Well I thought Id update here in case someone else down the road is looking for a solution. 

I got the runonce tweak to work but i couldnt get it to work on its own as the registry value gets deleted every boot. Only way it would work is if i manually added a entry to the registry everytime before i shut down. And i couldnt figure out a way to do it automated.

Anyways. turns out just creating a task in task scheduler is enough. Added a task to launch objectdock on login and it now starts almost instantly. Just what i wanted.