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Disable some apps at startup Mac OS X, High Sierra

Using Mac OS X, High Sierra, 10.13.6 on MacBook Pro (13-inch, Early 2011). I have apps that I use, but do not want to start at boot & login.

These apps do not have 'Open at Login' Dock option set. I found a terminal dialog (old – dated 2013) referring to a no-longer extant command 'launchctl' that I tried. Example, to not launch Amazon Music:

'launchctl unload ~/Library/LaunchAgents/com.amazon.music.startup.plist'


Older versions used Startupitems folders but no longer. In any case, those are empty.


Any suggestions?

MacBook (Starting Late 2009)

Posted on Jan 1, 2019 9:39 PM

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Posted on Jan 2, 2019 12:50 PM

Well, that was almost ego deflating... thought I'd set it to not launch automatically when I first installed Amazon Music app – but totally neglected to got to the app preferences. When I did open the preferences, it was not checked – however, the Launch from the Web was enabled. This particular setting allows Amazon to launch the Music app from a background process when the app is not running. Plus I'd stayed signed in to the app, so it would launch automatically from Amazon as soon as the network was active...


 

  


This seems to fix it. Of course, not staying signed in would have stopped this, I think, but disabling the background process closes that particular door.


Thanks for your enlightening comments and assistance





















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Jan 2, 2019 12:50 PM in response to dialabrain

Well, that was almost ego deflating... thought I'd set it to not launch automatically when I first installed Amazon Music app – but totally neglected to got to the app preferences. When I did open the preferences, it was not checked – however, the Launch from the Web was enabled. This particular setting allows Amazon to launch the Music app from a background process when the app is not running. Plus I'd stayed signed in to the app, so it would launch automatically from Amazon as soon as the network was active...


 

  


This seems to fix it. Of course, not staying signed in would have stopped this, I think, but disabling the background process closes that particular door.


Thanks for your enlightening comments and assistance





















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Jan 1, 2019 9:52 PM in response to Jayar1939

System P

refs>Users & Groups, unlock the lock, highlight your user, click on login items, if they are there hight & use the tiny minus icon to remove them...


If not there then...


Post a report from this please...




EtreCheck is a simple little app to display the important details of your system configuration and allow you to copy that information to the Clipboard. It is meant to be used with Apple Support Communities to help people help you with your Mac.




http://www.etresoft.com/etrecheck

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