How do I delay the autolaunch of a program on startup?

[Anonymous]

Hello,

I know how to put a file into the Run field in the registry to make it launch on startup. I would like to launch a program after either:
a) a time delay
b) after a specific program has run

The problem is that we use a different lan logon client (not the standard Win95 logon client), this loads up as a separate program AFTER the shell has loaded. I want to download a file from the LAN on startup by default, however I can't set it up to launch straight away as I'm not logged onto the LAN when Windows gets to the stage of running the programs in the registry.

So, a time delay would work (currently I'm using a batch file to do this) but if I could build a time delayed launch into the registry to start this download of the file (possibly 300 seconds delay?) then this would be a lot cleaner and tidier.

Does anyone have any ideas??
Please cc: ganes@nz1.ibm.com with any ideas.. thanks in advance.

[Sarg]

Using only windows, that may not be possible. It would not be difficult to compile a simple .exe file using about any programming language. Doing this, you could add a delay, or wait until a condition has been met. If you are completly unfamiliar with programming, check out Visual DialogScript. It can be used to do simple windows 'batch file' actions, or you can create some cool programs with it.