Manage Startup Items in OS X
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http://live.pirillo.com/ – In Windows, if you want a program to run automatically on startup, you’ll need to go to Start – Programs – and drag the program you want into the Startup folder. In OS X, Apple has made it even easier than that. Go figure.
On my Mac, my Dock is on the left side of my screen. In order to place something into my automatic startup, all I have to do is right click on it in the Dock (or click and hold if you don’t have a right mouse button) and select “Open at Login” from the little pop-out menu. That’s it. Nice and simple! Of course, if I wanted to do things the hard way, I could go to System preferences and get to the accounts panel. There is a list of the programs that load automatically when I boot up. From there, I can browse to add a program and click “add”, or else highlight one already there and delete it. Gotta love simplicity and user-friendliness.
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6 Comments
JS
August 28th, 2007
at 5:13pm
MS still borrowing from Mac OS 7 which had a startup items folder.
JS
August 28th, 2007
at 5:13pm
MS still borrowing from Mac OS 7 which had a startup items folder.
Joe
February 25th, 2009
at 7:53am
That wasn’t any easier than Windows.
Forrest
July 1st, 2009
at 9:34pm
That’s not startup, that’s login. If you don’t know the difference, then you shouldn’t pretend to know what you’re talking about.
zahadum
September 8th, 2009
at 4:57pm
you are conflating startup items (at boot time) with login items (at login items).
this approach (dock or the sysprefs) only deals with logins …
you actually need to use some special utlities to actually config/edit the items looased (as root) during boot process …
try “LINGON”
Ben
January 10th, 2010
at 11:46am
U can just say “right click on the icon and click on open at login” instead of talking for nothing u stupid fag !!!!!!