How to increase the startup speed of the delphi app?

Question

What do you do to increase startup speed (or to decrease startup time) of your Delphi app?

Other than application specific, is there a standard trick that always wor

Answer 1

Put long running tasks (open database connections, connect to app server, etc) that have to be performed on startup in a thread. Any functionality that depends on these tasks are disabled until the thread is done.

It's a bit of a cheat, though. The main form comes up right away, but you're only giving the appearance of faster startup time.