elliotwoods / vvvv.external.startupcontrol

Put this in your Windows startup folder and use it to start an executable or a patch on computer load

About

Choose a patch or executable, and a target CPU percentage.

Then whenever the CPU usage % is below a threshold, the progress bar will increase (and decrease if it's above the threshold).

When the CPU usage has been low for 10 seconds, the app will load the patch you've selected and close itself.

Also pressing the escape key cancels the process, so you can stop the patch loading on startup.

Saves all its settings in an external file.

Usage

1. Run the application
2. Select a patch using the 'Select' button (this will popup by default the first time)
3. Select a target CPU usage threshold with the 'Target' slider
4. Hit Cancel
5. Put a shortcut to the application in your startup folder.
6. Reboot and enjoy!

Download

Download from https://github.com/elliotwoods/VVVV.External.StartupControl/downloads

vvvv.external.startupcontrol's Issues

crash under win7 x64

hi
when i build the source i've this warning:
Warning 1 'StartupControl.Form1.Close()' hides inherited member 'System.Windows.Forms.Form.Close()'. Use the new keyword if hiding was intended. E:\projects\patches\elliotWoods\elliotwoods-VVVV.External.StartupControl-d2618a1\StartupControl\Form1.cs 70 16 StartupControl

even with previous version i can run the exe only on one of my 2 systems, both are win 7 x64

windows error logs :
App:
StartupControl.exe
1.0.0.0
4fa526f6
KERNELBASE.dll
6.1.7600.16850
4e211485
e0434352
0000b9bc
1174
01cd2ac0bb9917bb
E:\projects\patches\elliotWoods\elliotwoods-VVVV.External.StartupControl-d2618a1\StartupControl\obj\x86\Release\StartupControl.exe
C:\Windows\syswow64\KERNELBASE.dll
fb502feb-96b3-11e1-a9ff-001583359fd7

.NET:
Application: StartupControl.exe
Framework Version: v4.0.30319
Description: The process was terminated due to an unhandled exception.
Exception Info: System.InvalidOperationException
Stack:
at System.Diagnostics.PerformanceCounterLib.CounterExists(System.String, System.String, System.String)
at System.Diagnostics.PerformanceCounter.InitializeImpl()
at System.Diagnostics.PerformanceCounter..ctor(System.String, System.String, System.String, Boolean)
at System.Diagnostics.PerformanceCounter..ctor(System.String, System.String, System.String)
at StartupControl.Form1..ctor()
at StartupControl.Program.Main()

any ideas?