How do I turn off app resume on start up?

If a hard shutdown is necessary due to some problem, this will help when you restart -

NOTE: this only works if you use login (i.e. automatic login is disabled):

Restart. At the point where you enter your password, type it, and right after you hit enter, hold down SHIFT key. This should bypass Resume reloading the previous troublesome page.

I had that problem with a malware site which redirected me and wound up reloading that site several times (with the same devastating consequences).

Well, having sworn foul revenge on the Apple minions who devised this idea, I find that with a bit of tweaking we could actually end up with a useful feature.

By locking the .plist file as explained previously by Softwater on this thread, you stop the absurd mass opening of every window that existed at the time of ending your last session, but you are left with the same process for each individual prograrn (sorry, App) as you open them. Most obviously Safari, which opens all the previously visited web-sites.

This could be quite useful if we could select the windows we want to see again (I use a web based mail and a live info feed all day every day and it is less than 1 in 100 days when I wouldn't want both opening immediately).

At the moment the only way to achieve this is, prior to shutting down, to close each window that you don't want to see again in turn. The ones that you do want will then appear at resume. If you don't want any then you have to close ll windows before shutting down.

Way too clumsy and time consuming - there must be a better way.

Okay, did all the other things. They didn't work. This one DID WORK. When you enter the string in terminal it seems as if nothing's happening. But when you restart, you get a nice clean screen, no open windows or apps Even with Mail and Firefox. They're gone. Hooray. Thanks.

Thanks, babowa.

I'll try this when I have even more free time to waste messing around with my computer.

This is such a stupid feature. If people want to use it, fine, but Apple, please, stop telling me how to use MY computer. Every "feature" should have an off switch. I've disabled about half of the "wonderful new things" you've foisted on me. Your need to control is out of control.

Are you listening, Apple?

After I had installed Lion I spent a lot of time fixing things that were wrong. Then I realised what I was trying to do. I was trying to make it work like Snow Leopard!

So guess what I did? I went back to Snow Leopard.

I have sent feedback to Apple, and if Apple really doesn't read the support pages on it's own web site, that's sadder than the mandatory resume "feature" in Lion.

Lion came installed on the new Mac Book my wife bought--no update there. That was the incentive to move forward.

We have two laptops and a home iMac, plus iPhones, iPad and iPods. Going back to Snow Leopard isn't really an option. We sync calendars, etc. across machines. Mobile Me is going away (yes, I'm annoyed about the loss of web hosting and gallerys, too.) and iCloud isn't supported by Snow Leopard. Snow Leopard is a dead end (sorry, Tom).

I'm someone who likes to be able to use a computer in an efficient and personal way, I'm not a ludite. It's not moving forward I object to, it's designers getting in the way of how I use my computer.

Thanks to this site I've located articles about how to undo this feature which, after ten steps, I have now done. Thank you.

Jasonxoc wrote:

Can you do defaults write com.* ApplePersistenceIgnoreState YES ??

Terminal commands are not my forte, so the short answer is: I don't know.

Have you tried this yet:

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

No I don't mean those things, i mean quoting someone else's post.

softwater wrote:

Have you tried this yet:

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

Am I correct in assuming that the website you are linking to is yours?

Thanks so much for this!!!!

Ahhhhhh, it doesn't work. This does, however: http://osxdaily.com/2011/08/25/disable-reopen-windows-when-logging-back-in-in-ma c-os-x-lion-completely/

RWCJAZ wrote:

ISnow Leopard is a dead end (sorry, Tom).

It's more than that. It's the end of the MacOS for me. Unless Lion gets radically fixed, my next OS is not going to be made by Apple.