Q: Stop Facetime loading at startup

I don't have Facetime running, have you tried to turn it off in Facetime /Prefences?

It is perhaps not on my system due to me never signing in, can you sign out and see if that cures it.

The reason I said turn it off is this is in my preferences.

Hi Matt,

I appreciate what you are saying but the fact is Facetime does not start on my computer when I boot up, so it is not something intrinsic in 10.9.2. It must be some setting on your computer.

Looking around the help sites there have been instances were removing the plist file for Facetime has cured this problem, you could try that, it will make a new plist when/if you start it up.

About the other suggestion, are you logged into Facetime or like me you don't use it and it just keep starting up at boot time?

I also have had this problem since updating earlier today.

Trying to sort it out but not sure how!

Have you actually looked in the FaceTime menu?

Hi Math,

Did you try removing the plist file?

/Users/[your account]/Library/Preferences/com.apple.facetime.plist

After removing it, reboot.

It might also be worth checking to see if the same issue happens in another OS X user account.  It could be useful for isolation. 

Go to Finder and select your user/home folder. With that Finder window as the front window, either select Finder/View/Show View options or go command - J.  When the View options opens, check ’Show Library Folder’. That should make your user library folder visible in your user/home folder.

Thanks to leonie for some information contained in this.

You might need to redo the View settings after an update.

You are welcome.