How can I make Bluetooth start up first?

On my Mac mini I have a wireless keyboard and mouse. When the machine starts up, it loads the usual components, looks for the network etc and (incidentally) starts Skype - and only after this does it appear to activate the keyboard, and after that (sometimes 20 or 30 seconds later) it activates the mouse. I would like the mouse and keyboard to come up first thing, so that I can look for example at System Preferences etc as soon as possible - I'm powerless without the mouse. So the question is, is there some way of changing priorities so that Bluetooth starts up near the beginning of the startup sequence? I've searched the forums but couldn't find a similar question to this.

You can partition a small slice of one of your HDDs. Install the OS to that. 32gig should be enough., Disk utility in applications/utilities allows you to shrink a partition and add another. The exception is fusion drives. If you go down the path of shinking a partition please make sure you have a good backup.
You can install the OS to a sufficiently large USB thumb drive (32gig should do it). Add drive genius and boot from it when needed.

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http://support.apple.com/kb/PH2605
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(* Put This In That
v2.0 april 22 2008
- runs as universal binary
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- consolidated code
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v1.7 October 3, 2006
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v1.6 October 28, 2004
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Get more free AppleScripts and info on writing your own
at Doug's AppleScripts for iTunes
http://dougscripts.com/itunes/
This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.
Get a copy of the GNU General Public License by writing to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301, USA.
or visit http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html
-- CONSTANTS
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