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From: ching@brahms.amd.com (Mike Ching)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system
Subject: Re: Bringing Finder frontmost after Startup Items run
Message-ID: <1991Jun7.164747.8982@amd.com>
Date: 7 Jun 91 16:47:47 GMT
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In article <4072@ux.acs.umn.edu> oleary@ux.acs.umn.edu (Doc O'Leary) writes:
>In article <1991Jun5.224338.10423@umiami.ir.miami.edu> dweisman@umiami.ir.miami.edu (Ordinary Man) writes:
>
>>In article <1991Jun5.175045.10002@amd.com>, ching@brahms.amd.com (Mike Ching) writes:
>>> 
>>> Ditto. I couldn't get the hard-disk-alias-in-the-startup-folder trick to
>>> work.
>>
>>That's because you have to make sure that you name the alias with a ~ in front 
>>of its name as in: ~Hard Disk
>>
>>That way it gets "Started up" last. That comment got axed by the recent 
>>followups.
>
>Not so.  Some of the applications I have opening at startup are quite happy
>to give up a few ticks as they open (My comm program loves the background).
>The Finder, of course, is more than happy to use those ticks to open other
>things.  When the backgrounded applications want to finish opening, they come
>back to the foreground and take some more ticks.  Thus, even though my HD
>alias is last to be opened, it does not bring the Finder to the front.
>


This sounds like an explanation. I renamed my hard disk to open last but
one of my startup applications is the alarm clock DA. I usually leave my
hard disk window open so opening on startup wasn't visible.

Mike Ching