NIS 2012 StartUp Manager and Windows 7 Gadgets

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I use a gadget to measure internet downloads and want to delay its startup until I have logged in to my wireless account.

 

I used the Startup Manager feature in NIS 2012 which is meant to delay selected startup items for 5 minutes. In Startup Manager I ticked the delay startup box for Windows Desktop Gadgets so as to delay the Windows Desktop Gadgets (sidebar.exe) file.This approach worked well when the next time I started my notebook sidebar.exe did not run for 5 minutes, giving me time to login to my wireless broadband, However after switching off and restarting again,  I find that after the second reboot the windows 7 gadget bar starts immediately and the delay startup box is no longer 'ticked'  in startup manager.

 

How do I get this setting (delayed start on Windows Desktop Gadgets) to stay on?

Thanks

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I use a gadget to measure internet downloads and want to delay its startup until I have logged in to my wireless account.

 

I used the Startup Manager feature in NIS 2012 which is meant to delay selected startup items for 5 minutes. In Startup Manager I ticked the delay startup box for Windows Desktop Gadgets so as to delay the Windows Desktop Gadgets (sidebar.exe) file.This approach worked well when the next time I started my notebook sidebar.exe did not run for 5 minutes, giving me time to login to my wireless broadband, However after switching off and restarting again,  I find that after the second reboot the windows 7 gadget bar starts immediately and the delay startup box is no longer 'ticked'  in startup manager.

 

How do I get this setting (delayed start on Windows Desktop Gadgets) to stay on?

Thanks

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In doing a search on Microsoft for delaying the startup of the sidebar, I found no information at all.  There are settings, supposedly, under "Appearance and personalization" to prevent an automatic start, but I don't have that heading listed in my Win 7.  It may be that Norton's delay is not sufficient to reliably stop Windows from loading something it thinks it should have.

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That being the case then Norton should not maake it an ‘offering’ in the delay setting window.