Features and requirements

Features:

Shows two groups of buttons. Each button is associated with a program (with parameters) so that a click on the button starts the associated program. The button icon is automatically fetched from the program file.
By a single click, all programs associated with the buttons in one of the groups, can be started.
A delay can be set between each such start.
Whilst the programs are being started, MultiStart can stay on top or minimize itself.
These settings (delay and on top or minimized) can be saved to an initialization file, which can also be edited with a standard text editor.
The buttons shown are based on a list in plain text. This can be edited with any text editor. There is also a special window (frame) for editing this file graphically.

MultiStart has been written totally in Java and should run on virtually any operating system. It has, however, so far only been tested on Windows.
Java Run Time System must be installed. (Most machines have this already – and it’s free. You can have Sun check this for you on-line.)
MultiStart takes up some 170 KB of your hard disk (and your RAM when it’s running).