-keep trying, pausing 30 seconds between each attempt, until the service is\r
-successfully started or you send it a stop signal.\r
+keep trying, pausing between each attempt, until the service is successfully\r
+started or you send it a stop signal.\r
+\r
+NSSM will pause an increasingly longer time between subsequent restart attempts\r
+if the service fails to start in a timely manner, up to a maximum of four\r
+minutes. This is so it does not consume an excessive amount of CPU time trying\r
+to start a failed application over and over again. If you identify the cause\r
+of the failure and don't want to wait you can use the Windows service console\r
+(where the service will be shown in Paused state) to send a continue signal to\r
+NSSM and it will retry within a few seconds.\r
+\r
+By default, NSSM defines "a timely manner" to be within 1500 milliseconds.\r
+You can change the threshold for the service by setting the number of\r
+milliseconds as a REG_DWORD value in the registry at\r
+HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\<service>\Parameters\AppThrottle.\r