How do I disable "reopen windows when logging back in"

Hey, that's awesome, it works, too! I will paste a sticky note to my Air screen until I've memorized this.

Thanks to this stupid little button that won't stay unchecked, one of the gals on our staff at the office started calling the Restart window the "Retard window." Hilarious.

Thanks!

it is indeed a R window 😁

I really dislike it when my machine refuses to obey me. It's why left Windows! Argh!!!!

As much as it pains me to say this... You can actually customize just about every aspect of Windows. While we may not care for the OS itself, it seems that it has become more open than OS X. There is actually very little that Windows forces you to do and practically everything can be turned on or off.

Hi Guys,

Stumbled across this post tonight while searching for a solution like all of you...

Well, I found the best thing for this situation and thought I'd come back pass along my discovery.

Victor Andreoni wrote a few sweet (and free) applescripts that I installed tonight and tested extensively.

They shutdown, reboot, or logout with a single click... closing all programs. It's a thing of beauty.

Download Cleanshutdown, Cleanlogout, and/or Cleanreboot from him here:

http://www.gizmoblurb.com/

I'm using just shutdown & reboot... put the two on my dock with my own icons. Very sweet.

I got an access error on first use... just go into System Preferences -> Personal -> Universal Access -> Check box at bottom for "Enable Access for Enabled Devices". I believe I had to log out to effect the access change, and poof. One button shutdowns and reboots good to go.

In fact, I'm going to donate $5 to him right now for ridding me of the dreaded check boxes ;^)

Enjoy.

-Mccleodx

If you're not afraid to type in two commands in Terminal a permanent fix can be found here:

http://hexbrain.wordpress.com/2011/08/24/getting-rid-of-lions-application-restor e/

My girlfriend told macs are computers in training. That was 6 months ago. Before lion. Come on Apple! really? Forget a fresh restart. What about my privacy? Maybe I don't want people to know what I had on my screen when I decided to shut down my computer? And why should I unchek the **** thing EVERY SINGLE TIME!? Is mac really going to be a computer in training stage? For god sake, this thing is way worse that Vista's ridiculus user protetcion system. This needs a fast fix, and I demand it from apple since it puts my privacy rights in danger! Apple are you listening? This is a deal breaker for some people!

While I do agree that there needs to be an option to make the checkbox selection persistent, I do not believe there is a privacy issue. If someone can see what was on your screen when you shut it down, they also have access to everything else on your system. You should always have your system require that you enter your login credentials at boot (as opposed to automatically logging you in). If someone else can't log into your computer, they will never see the applications restart.

Again... I definitely want my election upon shutdown to remain permanent, but with respect to privacy and/or security you're no more or less at risk with this "feature" unless you're not requiring a login. In which case any data on your system is available to anyone that turns it on.

The little app at "http://goo.gl/Z4EFC" refuses to download...

Hey,

Don't know if you tried going into the VM library and making sure that the Option to Start Windows 7, XP, etc is not enabled.

VWWare>Window>Virtual Machine Library. There should be a panel with a STAR icon. Click this to enable/disable the auto boot of windows when VWWare launches.

Hope this helps.

Or if you don't want to type in anything in Terminal or download any apps or scripts for this, just try this:

when you want to shut down your mac, hold down the alt key and click on shut down. There you go. It won't ask anything, just start shutting the system down.

It's the easiest way for me, at least.

kisuke3 wrote:

control + option + command + eject

should do the trick. No pop up message

No eject button on this keyboard, sorry.

that's weird. What kind of keyboard do you have?

kisuke3 wrote: that's weird. What kind of keyboard do you have?

Wolfking "Timber Wolf" without the effing numeric keypad on the right. I like to have my mouse closer, not having to each over a numeric keypad etc etc.

Since I don't use the left-hand gamer keys, I just blu-tacked a bit of thin plywood over the top as a nice "table" for yellow stickies, pens etc

In Mac OSX hints, there is a solution, though it entails tinkering in a pretty sophisticated way with terminal. See

http://hints.macworld.com/article.php?story=20110918051930924

for the particulars, with thanks to the provider Frank Erens. I have not tried it.

Have a look here, guys

http://applehelpwriter.com/2011/09/13/turn-off-resume-the-definitive-solution/

This has worked for me and many others, but I have to admit one person who tried it said it didn't work for them.