I agree. My business partner was approached by someone about writing an app. To basically tell the user that the computer is ready to use.
My gut feeling is this is not the type of app. Thats going to be very reliable..... Jeremy From: delphi-boun...@delphi.org.nz [mailto:delphi-boun...@delphi.org.nz] On Behalf Of Jolyon Smith Sent: Monday, 14 September 2009 17:48 To: 'NZ Borland Developers Group - Delphi List' Subject: Re: [DUG] Has Windows finished?? I'm not sure that any API - even if it exists - can actually be at all reliable so I doubt that it even exists. If it *did exist all it could possibly tell you is that Windows has loaded and initialised all the processes that it thinks it needs to. But Windows itself does not and cannot know what those processes are going to do once launched, so it has no way of knowing if/when those processes themselves are "finished". Some won't *ever* finish. Some of those processes are launched and then simply sit "resident" (showing my age I think) doing some work periodically, such as the various "Update service" processes that numerous applications install these days. What constitutes "finished", in your terms, in these cases? The executable image has finished loading from disc? The process associated has *started*? The process associated has *finished*? If the latter, does that mean terminated and unloaded or simply "gone idle" (what you consider "idle" being potentially wholly different from what "idle" means to any one of those processes). It might be better to ask why you want to do this? What is it you are trying to achieve in your process? What is it, specifically, you are waiting for and why? This might help identify an approach to suit your needs. From: delphi-boun...@delphi.org.nz [mailto:delphi-boun...@delphi.org.nz] On Behalf Of Jeremy Coulter Sent: Monday, 14 September 2009 14:07 To: NZ Borland Developers Group - Delphi List Subject: [DUG] Has Windows finished?? Hi all. Is there API or SOMETHING that I can call or look at that will tell me if windows has finished "Loading". i.e. all the programs that windows has to load have finshed loading etc. etc. I guess I can look at the CPU usage, but not sure how good thisis. What if one of the programs being loaded is a CPU hog because the machine is a bit of a dog etc. Anyone got any ideas? Jeremy
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