I still think that a default delayed start would be preferable for users, who would like to get a working infrastructure out-of-the-box. All service configuration steps may require much time from users, who have no appropriate qualification.

My proposals:

• Enable "Delayed start" by default
• Add a Wiki page describing Windows service configuration for "Advanced" users

Most people probably don't use UNC paths for storage[1] - and then you are impacting the majority of users with a slow startup to fix the minority of users.

If you want to fix 80% of the minority without impacting the majority you could just depend on the "workstation" service.

Anyone that wants anything more complex can suck it themselves.

[1] based on nothing other than gut feeling and finger in the air - and that we still have huge amount of users that run builds on master!

teilo After some reconsideration I have decided not to enable it by default, but to provide a proper feature in WinSW: https://github.com/kohsuke/winsw/pull/205 . So anyone will be able to enable it if he wants.

Would it work for you?

Closing as Resolved. The option is there since 2.60, but it is an opt-in behavior