I forget to start anydvd before using dvd decrypter on some movies and then I cannot use dvdrebuilder or dvdshink to shink the movie. Get memory errors.
I wanted a shortcut to have anydvd start then dvd decrypter start using only one shortcut. I wrote this bat file which does the job but sometimes dvd decrypter starts before anydvd has fully started and it gives and error. Not a real big problem since I can just in dvd decryrter tell it to retry and it works but there should be a way to add a wait time in the bat file so that anydvd will be running before dvd dcrypter starts.
Here is the bat file I am using if there a way to put a delay before the second line starts? Or is there another way to do this?

@start "" "C:\Program Files\SlySoft\AnyDVD\AnyDVD.exe"
@start "" "C:\Program Files\DVD Decrypter\DVDDecrypter.exe"

Just leave AnyDVD running all the time. It fixes a lot of CD/DVD related Windows problems when running.

If you have AnyDVD start up when Windows starts up, you won't have this problem.

How hard is it to just remember to start AnyDVD first?

Not hard for you maybe but I had a head injury years back and it is hard for me to remember things sometimes. As for having anydvd running all the time I could do that but I do not like programs running when I do not need them but if it fixes cd/dvd problems with windows I might just do that.

Gotcha. Might as well pin AnyDVD to your start menu so it starts up automatically when your computer boots. Plus I checked and it takes up hardly any memory anyways.

if you still want to go the way of the batch file, you have to create a separate WAIT.bat file and call it to come up within the batch file that you're executing to start the programs. you can't actually use a WAIT command with windows or dos. you have to use a ping timeout or something like that...

google "add wait time to bat file" and you should get a guide or two to help.

you could also nix the extra bat file and use the PAUSE command. PAUSE requires some action on the part of the user though so you'd have to press enter or something to resume the execution of the bat file after anydvd has loaded.

or you could just have anydvd start at startup and leave it running (Easiest option)

I followed your advice and went to this site to download windows 2003 resource kit and it allowed me to use the sleep command as follows.
@start "" "C:\Program Files\SlySoft\AnyDVD\AnyDVD.exe"
sleep 1
@start "" "C:\Program Files\DVD Decrypter\DVDDecrypter.exe"

The one second delay was all I needed.
This was a lot of trouble to do what I could do just by leaving anydvd running but just had to see if I could make two programs start with one shortcut.

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