how do i prioritise an app on startup

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how do i prioritise an app on startup

i have a late 2007 MBP and for those who know, the nvida chip doesn't like any heat and likes to stay as cool as possible.

this is why many users install a fan controller of some kind, to control the temperature by controlling the fan speeds. and i am not an exception.

as a rule, i have added my fan controller "Macs Fan Control" to my "User start-up" programs and it does start up when the MBP starts up. but, in most cases, its one of the last programs to start up and if im doing a "Restart" for some reason, the chip temperature can increase so much, that it can damage the chip.

is there a way to prioritise the app startup sequence, so that the "Macs Fan Control" is towards the top of the program boot up list? so that is can start near off immediately on boot up.

thanks 🙂

MacBook Pro, OS X Yosemite (10.10.3), Late 2007 MBP

Posted on Jun 27, 2015 3:15 PM

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Answer 1

Niel

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Jun 27, 2015 3:22 PM in response to oldgit9

Choose Utilities from the Finder's Go menu, open the AppleScript Editor, and paste in the following:

tell application "Macs Fan Control" to run

delay 10--time is in seconds

tell application "other application" to run--duplicate this line as needed

Save it as an application and remove everything except it and the fan controller from the list of programs.

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oldgit9 Author

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Jun 27, 2015 3:58 PM in response to Niel

hi and thanks for replying Neil.

i followed your instructions, but unfortunately, it didn't work for me. its probable something that i done wrong (im a bit of a noob at this sorry). but no matter what i done, the script that i wrote, would not start up "Macs Fan Control" and when i manually started the app, the temperature were dangerously close to 70C + range.

after i deleted the script and re-applied the "Macs Fan Control" in the "User/Groups/Login Items", when i restarted, the app started up as it used to, after firefox, spotify etc. it was if it was the last on the list to start up.

thats what i want to prevent and to make it the first program to load on start-up.

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Answer 3

Niel

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Jun 27, 2015 4:02 PM in response to oldgit9

Remove Firefox, Spotify, and everything else from the list; the instructions above were to remove those applications, not the fan control one. When done, only that script and the fan control application should be in it.

Ensure that the applications are named correctly. The finished script will look like:

tell application "Macs Fan Control" to run

delay 10--time is in seconds

tell application "Firefox" to run

tell application "Spotify" to run

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Answer 4

oldgit9 Author

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Jun 27, 2015 4:17 PM in response to Niel

hi Neil.

still a no go sorry 😢

i'll try again tomorrow. it's late and ive got an early start, plus ive had a few beers...so probably not a good combination..lol

thanks for the help 😎

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