I did this with Windows 8.1 home edition, but it should work with Vista and Win7 as well.

1. I created a batch file named axtime.bat in the same folder as the AXti.me startup batch files, with the following content. Modify the disk/folder paths as needed for your installation:

@echo off
c:
cd \axtime
start STEP_1_start_database.bat
timeout 5
start STEP_2_start_AXtimeRM.bat
timeout 10
start http://localhost/login
exit

What this does is open a new window to start the database (step 1), wait 5 seconds, open another window to start AXti.me, wait 10 seconds, and then opens the login page in your default web browser.

2. If you are using Google Chrome for your web browser, it will probably open up and report that it cannot connect to the web site. It seems to retry after a minute, so be patient while AXti.me finishes initializing (or be impatient and keep clicking the reload button if it makes you feel better). :-)

3. To make AXti.me start on boot (Windows login), you need to create a shortcut to the new batch file in the Windows Startup folder. For systems before Windows 8, the folder is visible on the start menu. For Windows 8.1, you can press the WIN+R keys and then type shell:startup to open the startup folder.

http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/wiki/windows_8-desktop/how-to-access-the-startup-folder-in-windows-8/2fbd82ee-ab43-49a6-a78e-d9505c0444c5

4. If you are like me and want a completely hands-off T&S computer, you can set the user password to be blank so that Win8 skips the login prompt.

5. As a final touch, you can make Windows boot to the desktop and not the Start menu (Metro) by following these directions:

http://www.pcworld.com/article/2043243/how-to-boot-to-desktop-mode-in-windows-8-1.html

6. You can take it one step further by saving the AXti.me admin user/password in Chrome, so that the user only needs to press ENTER to login and get started.

Hope that somebody finds this information useful to simplify their morning startup routine.....

@vreihen when you do this way, are the command windows opened within the UI or are they hidden?

@Chris - Both command windows are open, just as if you went into the folder and clicked to launch each one. The web browser opens full-screen in front of them, but all are on the taskbar and readily selectable.

In Windows batch files, the "start" command spawns a new asynchronous window, and then launches whatever command you specified in that window. It also has options to launch minimized /min, maximized /max, and to select the task's priority and even affinity (at least on the Windows 8.1 box I'm looking at).....

FWIW, though I'm not doing the auto-start upon boot, I did create a desktop shortcut to this .bat file on our timing laptop to make things easier for non-techies in the rare event someone besides me need to start or restart axtime. Works great!
Hmm, now I'm wondering what happens if someone were to run the .bat file after axtime is already running. Will have to test that.

Update: So if someone should run that .bat file again accidentally, it does open the cmd windows ... but they just error out and axtime continues on as is.

@JasonPowell UNOFFICIALLY :-)

The following information is unsupported and done at your own risk.

WINDOWS ONLY

1. open a administrator command prompt
2. cd to the /website-2-3-x directory of your latest version
3. type in "node setup"
4. you should now have a Windows Service

For mongodb... http://www.troubleshootingcenter.com/2014/04/19/installing-mongodb-2-6-and-configuring-it-as-a-windows-service-windows-8-1/