I recently had the Apple Store wipe my mid 2015 27" iMac clean and reinstall Big Sur. All was well for a couple of months and now on Start Up, 4 different apps load. Ring, google map, Word templates and Safari. I can't find any place that tells it to open any of these on startup other than Safari. Suggestion appreciated.
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iMac 27″, macOS 11.6
In addition if you see that some apps are setup to startup on login, simply highlight them and click the - button in the dialogue box to remove them from your start up items. In addition, you may have those apps left on when you shut down the iMac, if that is correct you have a setting to re-start them when you log back in, you can turn that off too.
In addition if you see that some apps are setup to startup on login, simply highlight them and click the - button in the dialogue box to remove them from your start up items. In addition, you may have those apps left on when you shut down the iMac, if that is correct you have a setting to re-start them when you log back in, you can turn that off too.
Apps can manage their own startup settings and should provide a way in the app preferences if they do not just put themselves in the Login Items section. If they do not have a preference to turn off running at login, contact the developer.
They can also launch themselves with a LaunchAgent in /Library/LaunchAgents or your user Library/LaunchAgents.
Those files will be named in the form, com.company.program.plist.
Thanks for the suggestions. I did not know about the Launch Agents. I will take a look and see what I can find. Just seems strange that all of this started for no reason that I know of. I appreciate your interest.
Have you checked the following? Apple menu > System Preferences > Users & Groups > select the user and then click Login Items.
Thanks. That helped a little. Only one of the 3 was listed but did remove it. :)
Still have Word in the dock. Gives me the option to open it on start up. Under the pref. listed above it just shows my external hard drive. Thanks for the suggestions. I will keep tryingl. :)
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