Unwanted startup items (OS Sierra)

I don't believe your disclaimer.

Reference your point 1., no one actually NEEDS a software utility that can show all of your startup items. Mac OS does an excellent job of managing them. And every one of them serves a purpose, sometimes an essential purpose.

CleanMyMac 3 is NOT available in the Mac App Store. Pretty telling, I think.

And MacPaw's "marketing" program seems to be to constantly spam Apple Support Communities, both directly and through shills. Which is why I don't believe your disclaimer.

Lexiepex wrote:

CleanMyMac is the worst scam that is available !!!!

Please: nobody should install that !! Everyone who is it should never use it !!

Actually, I respectfully disagree. MacKeeper deserves that honor. But CleanMyMac is a close second.

Lawrence Finch wrote:

Lexiepex wrote:

CleanMyMac is the worst scam that is available !!!!

Please: nobody should install that !! Everyone who is it should never use it !!

Actually, I respectfully disagree. MacKeeper deserves that honor. But CleanMyMac is a close second.

MacKeeper doesn't seem to have shills posting in the forums as much, at least not so I've noticed.

Hello Lawrence:

In my experience CMM can do even worse by removing system duplicates and unused languages, after which nothing goes anymore. But I am willing to follow your ranking easily: for me the result is the same: death by hanging has the same result as the firing squad 😁😁

Lex

Csound1 wrote:

Albert (or Alfred) Pierrepoint wrote an interesting book about British executioners and their changing methods, I always keep a copy on hand in the bathroom to pass the time (amongst other things).

Why am I not surprised?

IdrisSeabright wrote:

Csound1 wrote:

Albert (or Alfred) Pierrepoint wrote an interesting book about British executioners and their changing methods, I always keep a copy on hand in the bathroom to pass the time (amongst other things).

Why am I not surprised?

Probably for the same reason I wasn't.

Wow, quite a lot of jokers and off-topic commenters. Thanks. Glad I read all 4 pages of comments. Who moderates this? 260-some folks have this questions, and not one real answer in the lot.

Why should I not be upset that 280+ items in LaunchAgents and LaunchDaemons seem to be slowing down my startup time, which now clocks in at between 1 and 2 minutes, depending. Sometimes 3 and 4x that. Not to mention all the 100+ "users" in a simple, lonely Mac's opendirectory database. Astounding.

Gee, am I going to be podcasting at some time in the future, and I just don't know about it yet? I don't use wifi, and don't intend on using it: yet there are at least 3 applications which are monitoring/waiting/looking for me to use it, running, all the time. I don't appreciate my System resources being used up by Apple Push, yet, if I try to dismantle it or turn it off--especially without turning off the now infamous System Integrity via csrutil--I lose everything and have to rebuild.

How insanely ungreat is it that a free OS brings to bear all its resources (even AI capabilities) on an end-user who simply wants a cleaner, faster machine? I don't know how other Apple Developers do it, but I am rarely ever satisfied when it comes to minimizing risks from the OS to an intended new design for an App.

The days when one OS fits all are over--Apple obviously knows this, as it has to make an OS fit all its models. But there is no reason, anymore, given today's computing power, that the OS isn't *my* OS, designed for how I use my Macs and nobody else. I await the moment when Apple catches up with this realization. In the meantime, how do I get rid of all the stuff I don't need or want on my Mac? Real-life, actual suggestions that work preferred.

(By the way, I've been using Apple computers since 1984. In the old days, you counted on the limitations of memory and storage to keep Developers from junking up your system. I don't see where this discipline matters, anymore. And if you, like some of those who have already attempted an answer, think that all should just be left alone: really? You're going to justify each and every item in LaunchAgents? in LaunchDaemons? Not one thing there that doesn't need to be there? Not *one* .plist of fat? If you believe that you don't know what you're professing to talk about or lying. Please spare us.)

Thank-you.

here ya go @physioz2,

there are lots of crazy system folders on mac that contain launch-agents... this article explains it pretty well. Maybe, one day, apple will make this as easy as Windows for disabling start up apps without clean-up software or removing plist files:

https://www.macworld.com/article/2047747/take-control-of-startup-and-login-items .html

Maybe, one day, apple will make this as easy as Windows for disabling start up apps without clean-up software or removing plist files:

They already do. Just open the folder in Finder and delete the items you don't want to load or delete the Preference files you don't want to maintain.

I was looking for how to do this, and followed the Instructions provided by the reply post and discovered there is a much simpler and FREE (the program only gives you a small amount of data cleared as a trial) way to do this

All you have to do is click/highlight the item you want to delete, and then press the 'delete' key. It is so easy I'm mad that I wasted my time installing a program, that didn't even delete the item I needed it to.😐

Open the Finder.

From the Finder menu bar click Go > Go to folder

Then copy / paste the following:

/Library/StartupItems

Click Go then move files out of the StartupItems folder.

Go to Extensions folder in the System Preferences utility.

Turn off all the extensions you don't need or don't use (like social media and others).

This also makes your computer start-up faster.

FWIW, in many programs, start at login is optional. You need to check the preferences for the programs that are starting. If you have particular problematic programs, listing them would be helpful.