Turn off "Reopen windows when logging back in"

Very good solution. But everyone I've talked to who has installed Lion HATES this "feature". And obviously we're not alone. I dont want to have to write scripts etc. to fix something that Apple clearly needs to fix. All they need to do is make the check box stay how you last left it (checked or unchecked). I'm almost inclined to think it's a bug that it rechecks itself every time. Is there a way to directly communicate this sort of thing to Apple or do they read these boards?

Hi everyone.... sadly I don't have a fix but I just wanted to say how ANNOYING this "enhancement" is. Come Apple.... surely enough people have now moaned about this daft check box? Please rectify and enable it to "remember" how the user set it last time. Thank you. Paul (in the UK)

A permanent fix for this behavior is to close all open windows, then lock (using Get Info) the plist file at,

~/Library/Preferences/ByHost/com.apple.loginwindow.*.plist

(where * is a string of 12 characters). It works well, and is easy to reverse if you want. I keep a text file listing any little changes like this for future reference.

Please disable this feature by default

It's really amazing that 'there is no alternative !

There's an easy way to avoid this for logging off which is simlar to the restart/shutdown suggestion provided earlier in this post.

To logoff AND completely skip the popup window, you can do one of the following:

if you like using the mouse, simply hold the option button down while selecting log out under the Apple menu

If you prefer a keyboard shortcut, simply press Command-option-shift Q.

Hope this helps

Ruben

Best way I found is using the spacebar and pressing enter. It's a quick process that's demonstrated here:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7IWTDKiMFg8

One more reason to love Windows

"One more reason to love Windows"

Are you kidding? Addressing desireable changes is normal procedure for anything and everything in human society. Windows blows which is why it's called Winblows by those who have used both for years. Winblows is slow, buggy, crash prone, virus prone, busy, can't print 16 bit. Shall I go on? Love Winblows? Ya right.

You're arguing about semantics here. Who cares if he loves Windows and we love the Mac OS.? The unnecessary quirk still exists. There was nothing wrong previously with being able to shut our Macs off without having to stop and make a decision on whether programs will open or not on next reboot. The code writers were being flat-footed with several items in Lion. As a strange, unforeseen result, a site I was looking at before going to bed, for a gift I was trying to buy secretly for my husband, re-popped up in the morning. And now, that surprise is shot.

This stupid and clumsy bug is so unlike Apple. It takes me back to the days of Windows 3.1 when if I wanted to set up my desktop, I'd have to do it at shut down and then remember to untick the box on the next shut down.

We already have the option to have certain applications start automatically when the computer boots. This new option is useless to me. I might have several apps open at the end of the day and they all come back the next morning so I have to wait longer for my system to load. Such a function will only appeal to a minority and so it should not be the default setting. I'm on 10.7.2 now and this simple checkbox function has still not been addressed!

I agree with "set it and forget it." Perhaps I'm a bit old fashioned, but I generally don't like to have more than a couple of programs/windows up at once, especially on older computers. Mac OS, even now, is quit the app and not close the window. The programs up when I shut down are usaully Firefox, Thunderbird and iChat, and those just happen to be set to start up at log in. So it may take some extra thought to make sure those are the only ones up when I'm done for the day, but I still find it easier to feed the shut down habit of pushing the on/off button and then hitting return.

This is really starting to annoy me to. When I want to Reboot or Shutdown, I have no desire to have everything start back up at default. Someday, in some circumstance, I may want that... but the default should be UN-checked box. Irritating to say the least, just give me the option to change the default.

+1,

I don't understand apple with this feature. How is this supposed to be great? not the fact that you can restart the programs you left open automatically but that apple leaves you no way to change this in the system preferences. I feel like patronized by apple. I guess I wouldn't care if this was a built-in since osx but once you saw the green grass you don't want to be locked back in.

I tried that terminal command, but couldn't get past the sudo password requirement. So that fix didn't fix it for me.