Startup seems to take forever. I think it is because too many things that I don't need are opening at startup. How do I find out what is opening, or why it is taking so long to open?
iMac (20-inch Early 2008), OS X Yosemite (10.10.1)
RJO43,
Open System Preferences...>Users & Groups>Current User>Login Items...and remove all unnecessary items.
Also download and run EtreCheck and post the results.
You also have to look at launchdaemons and Launchagents folders in the Startup disk library folder and the user library folder. You can usually figure out which applications the entries are for. Don't delete any com.apple... files and anything else that you think is important. What I do is copy any one that I want to delete to the desktop before I delete them. Then if there is a problem I can restore them.
How do I find out what apps are opening at startup?
