How to stop login items to keep coming back?

Try to remove login plist to the desktop and what Eric suggested is also to be applied .

My experiences say that if deleting the plist will not work , I would straight away clean the hard drive and reinstall the OS ( no its and buts ) a straight forward decision .

Hi Eduardo:

How are you removing them.

Are you clicking the Lock to unlock?

You then select the item and then click the "-" sign.

However some apps require you to do it under the apps preferences.

Notice where it says Lauch at Login.

You must disable it here.

Kim

Hi Eduardo:

Just wondering if you have your programs set to reopen at startup.

You can check by selecting Shutdown and see if "Reopen windows when logging back in" is selected.

Maybe that would cause the issues if the program never closed.

Just a thought,

Kim

As per this article : OS X Yosemite: If you think you have incompatible login items

Login items are apps that open automatically when you start up or log in to your Mac. Occasionally, a login item may cause a blank blue screen at startup or other problems.

Another article : OS X Yosemite: Open items automatically when you log in

Temporarily prevent items from opening automatically when you log in

If you see the login window, press the Shift key while you click the Log In button, then release the Shift key when you see the Dock.

If you don’t see the login window, restart your Mac, hold down the Shift key when you see the progress bar in the startup window, then release the Shift key after the desktop appears.

Might be a corrupt .plist.

Do a backup, preferably 2 backups on 2 separate drives.

Quit the application.

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. Select Library. Then go to Preferences/com.apple.systempreferences.plist. Move the .plist to your desktop.

Restart the computer, open the application, and test. If it works okay, delete the plist from the desktop.

If the application is the same, return the .plist to where you got it from, overwriting the newer one.

Thanks to leonie for some information contained in this.

Hi !

Eric , by deleting system preferences plist from user library > preferences folder is fine on the desktop is fine .

Restarting the machine and again entering system will create a new plist ( its a property of safari ) .

If we are dragging and dropping the corrupted plist over to the same place , it means we are overlapping the corrupted plist that was on the desktop to the plist that was in user library > preferences folder .

So , the plist still remains corrupted .

Then, directly drag the plist to the desktop , if every thing works fine delete the plist into the trash .

Hi Tygb:

Sorry, I didn't read your post before I posted.

Sounds like we were thinking the same thing.

Kim

No issues Sir , 🙂 thats the reason many users keep login items as empty ( mean to say avoid filling up login items ) .

We can simply click on apps that are in the dock and use it .

Thanks ! I thought deleting the plist will not work , so thats why I am much in favour of installing the OS , any ways thats great 🙂 .