Ever wondered, why your Mac starts running slow after a few months or years? There are a number of reasons behind it; out of them, one of the reasons is that apps automatically start when you restart or turn ON your Mac. These apps mostly mention this when you install them, but most of us just ignore it.
They slow down the startup process and above all, they keep eating up processing power without any productive output. There’s a simple way you can restrict these apps from opening at startup. We have mentioned detailed guide below to demonstrate the process, have a look.
We recently wrote about how you can prevent certain apps from opening automatically when you turn on your Mac. In this post we will do the opposite, as here you will find instructions on how to configure OS X to open certain apps automatically as soon as you login into your user account.
How to Stop Apps from Opening on Startup on Mac
I don’t want to delete the Google Drive app from my Mac, of course. I just want to stop it from automatically launching when I boot or log in. To stop Google Drive (or any other item in your own list), all I need to do is click once on its name to select it and then click the small minus button at the bottom of the list. This is going to be long. My mac went crappy might be the hard drive, I had a back up with time machine on a 1 TB drive. So I restored my drive but I used the wrong account! Not Apple ID, but account in my Mac. It was from when I first bought my Mac and transfer the data from an airbook, but I don’t use that account. To stop apps opening on startup on Mac: Highlight an app in the Login Items list. Select the minus ‘-‘ underneath the center pane. Repeat for all non-essential apps. You will obviously not want to disable all Login Items as some of them are essential. You will want to keep any third-party security apps, VPN apps and apps that you use all. Actually, this is a common behavior for applications that won't open more than one window at a time. For instance, Apple's own iPhoto, System Preferences, Dictionary and Calculator will quit on closing the window. I appreciate your suggestions.
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Step #1. Click the Applelogo from the menu bar and launch “SystemPreferences“.
Step #2. From the list of available preferences, click on “Users&Groups“.
Step #3. Now you will see the list of registered users for the Mac PC. Select the one for which you wish to change startup apps.
Step #4. At the same window after clicking the user, click on “Loginitems” tab at the right side of the screen.
Step #5. You’ll now get a list of apps that opens at Mac startup. Here you can either hide any/all apps or completely remove them from the list.
Step #6. To hide apps, simply click the checkbox given beside each app. In order to remove them completely, select the apps by clicking the checkbox to tick mark and then click on the “-” sign located at the bottom.
Step #7. You can now exit SystemPreferences and check the changes by restarting your Mac.
That’s all; all those apps that you hide or remove completely will no more bother you or your Mac at startup. You’ll notice a considerable change in speed when you restart your Mac next time.
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This is great. Thanks for posting. Now would there be a way to keep the application hidden?
There is, already. Read this: http://www.cocoadev.com/index.pl?LSUIElement
Thanks for the suggestion. This is quite technical. I am in no way a developer and got lost in the instruction. I was hoping for a simple solution like the one presented in this hint. I don't mind having the icon showing the application open in the dock but would like to hide the window.
Maybe this explanation can help, if you want to hide dock icon. (From here: http://growl.info/documentation/hardwaregrowler.php)
Disabling the dock icon:
Because HG doesn't really have any user-interaction features, you may follow these steps to disable the dock icon. Navigate to wherever you placed HG and right-click on it and select 'Show Package Contents.' Open up contents and then right-click Info.plist. Highlight 'Open With' and select TextEdit from the list (If TextEdit is not in the list, choose 'Other..' and navigate to TextEdit and click 'Open').
Paste the following just after <dict>:
<key>LSUIElement</key>
<true/>
Disabling the dock icon:
Because HG doesn't really have any user-interaction features, you may follow these steps to disable the dock icon. Navigate to wherever you placed HG and right-click on it and select 'Show Package Contents.' Open up contents and then right-click Info.plist. Highlight 'Open With' and select TextEdit from the list (If TextEdit is not in the list, choose 'Other..' and navigate to TextEdit and click 'Open').
Paste the following just after <dict>:
<key>LSUIElement</key>
<true/>
Not directly through launchd; but then again, I'm not sure why you'd want to do that, so maybe I'm misunderstanding the question. Play sound app mac. what app are you talking about, and what do you want hidden?
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I remotely connect to my computer at home with an application called TeamViewer. When TW launches it opens a window which provide login information. If you close that window, TW quits. You can't keep the application open without the window.
There are other members of the family who use this computer. They are sometimes distracted and close the window and with it, the application. Your hint comes very handy to prevent this. However, to prevent confusion it would be better if the window would hide when the application opens. You can do this when you add an application in the Login Items.
There are other members of the family who use this computer. They are sometimes distracted and close the window and with it, the application. Your hint comes very handy to prevent this. However, to prevent confusion it would be better if the window would hide when the application opens. You can do this when you add an application in the Login Items.
Badly designed port of a windows app. You should write the developers and tell them that this is un-Mac-like behavior and they should fix it.
That being said, this is not (IMO) how you should approach this issue. It would be better for you to create a second user account just for work and enable fast user switching. This way you have a handy menu that lets you switch between accounts - you can log into your work account, start the application, then switch to the other account and let your family have at it: the work account and the TW app will run in the some strange background dimension where no one can see it. Just tell your family not to go into your work account on pain of eternal grounding. (you could password the account if you really wanted to, but it would add the extra stop of entering the password when you wanted access).
In fact, you could set up individual accounts for each of your family members so that they could all do their stuff without it mixing in with everyone else's stuff. You'd want to max out your machine's RAM (fast user switching keeps each logged-in account active, which hogs memory).
That being said, this is not (IMO) how you should approach this issue. It would be better for you to create a second user account just for work and enable fast user switching. This way you have a handy menu that lets you switch between accounts - you can log into your work account, start the application, then switch to the other account and let your family have at it: the work account and the TW app will run in the some strange background dimension where no one can see it. Just tell your family not to go into your work account on pain of eternal grounding. (you could password the account if you really wanted to, but it would add the extra stop of entering the password when you wanted access).
In fact, you could set up individual accounts for each of your family members so that they could all do their stuff without it mixing in with everyone else's stuff. You'd want to max out your machine's RAM (fast user switching keeps each logged-in account active, which hogs memory).
'you could password the account if you really wanted to'
Oh my goodness. Are you seriously suggesting that users don't apply a password by default? This isn't 1980, you know..
You'd be surprised. I'm always seeing people over in the forums who share their user accounts with friends, college roommates, random acquaintances. People, I swear…
Oh my goodness. Are you seriously suggesting that users don't apply a password by default? This isn't 1980, you know..
However, If you're already sharing a user account with your family (and I assume this is a desktop that doesn't travel out of the house where other people could get physical access), then putting a password on your work account would just be to keep your kids/spouse out of it - it wouldn't really be needed for security reasons (unless you're worried about someone breaking into your house late at night so they could update their facebook page).
That being said, if you're going to have an account with no password, do not under any circumstances make it an administrator account or put it on the sudoers list. That would just be dumb.
Actually, this is a common behavior for applications that won't open more than one window at a time. For instance, Apple's own iPhoto, System Preferences, Dictionary and Calculator will quit on closing the window.
I appreciate your suggestions. I am already using multiple accounts on the computer but I also do remote support for extended family and friends and would like to keep it as simple as possible. A window auto-hide at launch would be just perfect in most cases.
I appreciate your suggestions. I am already using multiple accounts on the computer but I also do remote support for extended family and friends and would like to keep it as simple as possible. A window auto-hide at launch would be just perfect in most cases.
Thanks for the suggestion. This is quite technical. I am in no way a developer and got lost in the instruction. I was hoping for a simple solution like the one presented in this hint. I don't mind having the icon showing the application open in the dock but would like to hide the window.
Google the system preferences app Do Something When - I think you can set that up to automatically run a script to hide the app when it's launched.
I installed this Preference Pane. You can set it to open a document or an app when an app is launched (no option to run a script as such). I am not familiar with applescripts but managed to create an app with Automator that hides the window after launching TeamViewer. It does what I wanted to do. I am an happy camper now! Thanks tedw and everybody else for the kind and appreciated inputs.
I thought keeping and hiding an app is easier to carry out with an AppleScript app. An icon more in your Dock, though.
Doesn't this LaunchAgent prevent you from logging out? Every time you try to log out, Stickies relaunches and blocks the logout.
No, it shouldn't. launchd has a special procedure for logout and shutdown, in which it disables launchd jobs (for precisely this reason, I think - the KeepAlive key is commonly used for certain kinds of background tasks).
I rebooted several times to test this claim and the shut down was cancelled the first time only. I don't know why it happened only the first time.
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Maybe you had 'sudo launchctl load [..]' by mistake?
You lost me here. All I did is implementing the steps as instructed and did not change anything in between reboots.
This is pretty cool, Thanks! It works fine on my 10.5 system, but while it's loaded on 10.4, it doesn't seem to function. Any quick suggestions? Thanks again!
the KeepAlive key was introduced in 10.5. for 10.4, you could try replacing KeepAlive/true with OnDemand/false. Unfortunately I don't have a 10.4 partition to test this on
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You 'da MAN! I just made this change on my 10.4 system and it's working!
Thank you!!
Thank you!!