Don't open all programs when started

How can I stop all the programs being started when I turn on my computer? Thanks for your answer.

Uncheck the "Reopen windows when logging back in" box in the shutdown window:

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Is it possible to open a program when connecting an external hard drive?

Is it possible to open a program when connecting an external hard drive?
I have a external hard drive with an iphoto library. I just want to connect my drive and automatically see iphoto open! Possible?
I know there are some action scripts, am i right?

Ok, here are the steps to take. Doing this involves generating two scripts, the first of which will have the system monitor the attachment of a hard drive, and the second which will conditionally open iPhoto. To make these and set them up, perform the following steps (it is a little involved, but will get you the result you want):
Script 1: A launch agent to monitor attached hard drives
1. Open the Terminal utility in the /Applications/Utilities/ folder. Then copy and paste the following command into it and press Enter, which will open up an editor program in the Terminal:
pico ~/Library/LaunchAgents/iphotodrive.plist
2. Now copy and paste the following text to the Terminal window in its entirety so it is all entered into the Terminal editor:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" "http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd">
<plist version="1.0">
<dict>
          <key>Label</key>
          <string>local.iPhotoDrive</string>
          <key>QueueDirectories</key>
          <array/>
          <key>WatchPaths</key>
          <array>
                    <string>/Volumes</string>
          </array>
          <key>ProgramArguments</key>
          <array>
                    <string>/Users/USERNAME/Library/iphotodrive.sh</string>
          </array>
</dict>
</plist>
3. Use the arrow keys to navigate your cursor down to the place where it says /Users/USERNAME/Library..., and change the text of "USERNAME" to be the same name as your account home folder. For example, my login name in OS X is "tkessler" so my home folder is also "tkessler," so for me this is what should go in place of "USERNAME" in the text above.
4. Now press Control-O to save the file, and then Control-X to exit the editor (use Control, and not the standard Command key here).
Script 2: A shell script to open iPhoto when your drive is attached
1. Type (or copy and paste) the following command in the same Terminal window to make the second script in the same editor:
pico ~/Library/iphotodrive.sh
2. Now copy and paste the following text into the Terminal editor:
#/bin/bash
if [ -d /Volumes/"IPHOTODRIVE" ]; then
        open -a iPhoto;
fi
3. Again use the arrow keys to navigate, and edit the text IPHOTODRIVE to be the exact name of the drive you would like to spur iPhoto to open. The name will be case-sensitive, and spaces are OK within the quotes.
4. Again save this file by pressing Control-O, then press Control-X to quit the editor.
5. Next ensure this new script can be run, so to do this now copy and paste the following command:
chmod +x ~/Library/iphotodrive.sh
Now to activate these scripts you can log out of your account and log back in, and they should work as expeted, and will launch iPhoto only when a drive named "IPHOTODRIVE" (or whatever you edited this entry to be) is attached to the system. This procedure will create two files at the following locations on your computer, so to undo it simply remove these two files followed by logging out and back in, and you should be good to go:
/Users/USERNAME/Library/iphotodrive.sh
/Users/USERNAME/Library/LaunchAgents/iphotodrive.plist
If you run into any problems, then write back here and we can figure out if there are any nuance details to cover for your setup.

Can't open any programs after start up

after logging in i can't open any programs, when i click on somthing it acts like its going to load but never does, a couple of times it ask me to power off and then turn it back on with the same results. Please HELP!!!

You haven't provided us any usefuly information such as what machine you have or the verison of OS X it has installed. PLEASE complete your profile! It's simple to do, click Your Stuff in the upper right of this page then click Profile and complete as needed.

How do I open up BIOS when starting up?

I cannot figure out what key to hold down when starting windows xp professional to open up BIOS.
What do I have to hold down?

I am trying to do the same thing - access some type of BIOS or EFI upon startup.
The reason I am looking for the BIOS or EFI is because BitLocker (a drive encryption program) on my Vista side of things requires either: a TPM chip (which it seems I don't have), or the use of a USB key at startup.
Problem is: the BIOS needs to recognize USB in the "pre-operating system environment" (Microsoft's words). On a non-Mac machine, there is a setting in the BIOS to do this, but I don't know how to accomplish this task on a Mac.
Any ideas?

Nvidia, two monitors, both load, opens all programs on first screen

Hey all,
I have an nvidia GE force 9400GT and using two monitors.
In awesome wm, i get two different screens, almost like two computers shareing a keyboard.
However, in gnome, i get almost the same, but not quite. My wallpaper stretches across both screens, and if i open a program in either screen, it will only load in the first screen,
I don't want one large desktop spread over two monitors, would much rather have two seperate screens.
Am using the nvidia-173xx package
appreciate any advice. thanks

I have two monitors as well. What I am doing is running a separate X server on every screen. This behavior can easily be configured in the nvidia-settings application, on the "X Server Display Configuration" tab. Just press "Configure" and you are prompted for three options. Choose "Separate X screen". Then click OK, "Save to X Configuration File" and restart your X.
What you should note when you restart your X is that your window manger doesn't probably load on the secondary screen without further configuration. I have the following two lines on my .xinitrc file which loads Openbox to both of my screens (which you can use as reference):
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Can I close all layers? or even better, stop illustrator from opening all layers when I open a file?

I just installed cs6, and when I open files in Illustrator, it opens all of the layers which contain sublayers. It does this even if all the top-level layers were closed during the previous save. The files I work with have a large layer-structure, so re-closing the top-level layers every time I open a file wastes a lot of my time. Can I close all layers at once, or better yet, can I stop Illustrator from opening all of the layers automatically when I load a file?
If not, then WHY on earth not? I can't be the only one who opens and closes large files with lots of layers and sub-layers...
Thanks for your help.
Edit: I also am noticing this problem is even worse in cs6, because openning and closing individual layers plays a little animation of rotating the triangular arrow before the layer which, cute as it may be, just makes the task of individually closing up all my layers that much more tedious. Can I turn off that little animation of the triangular arrow when opening and closing layers?

You can save it as a pdf and when you open that in AI the layers will not be opened even if they have sublayers.
Not true. Does the same nonsense an .AI file does. Saved as a .PDF, closed Layers/subgroups get opened.
And no one cares!
I do. Every other Adobe program with a layering sceme seems to be able to remember that you saved a file with all layers and subs closed. But not this one.
Maybe someone from the AI development team should ask someone from the Photoshop team how they've managed it.....for decades.

Problems opening all programs!

Every program I open does not respond immediately. The spinning wheel always appears. Why is this occuring? Is it the battery? I have force quit all programs that were open hoping this may solve the probelm but it hasn't worked. Any ideas?

Sallyando,
this situation could be due to either a software problem, a hardware problem, or a combination of the two; let’s presume for the moment that it’s due solely to a software problem.
Try booting your MacBook Pro into Recovery mode by holding down a Command key and the R key as it starts up. Once the Mac OS X Utilities menu appears, select Disk Utility. On the left-hand side of the Disk Utility window, select your internal disk’s boot partition (typically called “Macintosh HD”). On the right-hand side, press the Verify Disk button if it’s not greyed out; if it is greyed out, or if it reports that errors were found, press the Repair Disk button. Once the verification/repair is completed, exit Disk Utility and select Restart from the Apple menu to restart in normal mode. Do you still get the perpetual spinning wheel?

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New problem in firefox 29:
When I click a link that opens the new page in a new window, the window pops open in the last partially maximized state that it was in. Should I maximize the new window (in Windows 8.1) and close it and re-click the original link, the window opens again in the partially maximized state, not the last fully maximized state that I previously closed it in.
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-the window won't be maximized in my experience
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CS2 , Several Filter groups no longer work, freeze program when starting them

I have a
b MAC OS 10.4.11
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i 8 bit image rastered
I get an audio error beep with no message. Photoshop then freezes.
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i simple talk is best.
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Actually there seems to be no problem now. My issue with the docking bar was one associated with having two monitors and one of them turned off (thank you to the person above who mentioned that). The reset of the preferences set my cinema screen to the left of the flat screen, opposite of my set up. Monitor preference adjustment corrected that.
One day when I get out of poverty, I will fill out the memory. But I have to say that I have had no problems so far with working with files vary large, up to 30mb, 40mb with lots of layers also.
Gotta say, Mac new OS is the smoothest most content operating systems I have ever used. So much so that I forget some of the technical system stuff over time from rarely having to use them.

Microsoft words open all documents when launched

When I start word I get a ton of documents popping up how can I stop this? I looked it up but I guess I have a newer version of word. here are my option when I go to preference>General

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I don't want to open certain tabs when starting FF

I'm using a PC in a different environment and when I start FF 6.0 a couple of Tabs open that I no longer need. How do I stop FF from opening those Tabs?
Thanks,
John

It is possible that there is a problem with the files sessionstore.js and sessionstore.bak in the Firefox Profile Folder.
Delete the files sessionstore.js [2] and sessionstore.bak in the Firefox Profile Folder.
* Help > Troubleshooting Information > Profile Directory: Open Containing Folder
* http://kb.mozillazine.org/Profile_folder_-_Firefox
If you see files sessionstore-##.js with a number in the left part of the name like sessionstore-1.js then delete those as well.<br />
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* [1] http://kb.mozillazine.org/Session_Restore
* [2] http://kb.mozillazine.org/sessionstore.js

I reinstalled Firefox and used Xmarks to reinstall bookmarks. All work except for those in the bookmarks toolbar, which scroll down but don't open the page when clicked.

I did a clean install of XP and reinstalled Firefox. Then I used Xmarks to get back all my bookmarks. All are working except for the bookmarks toolbar. It shows entries and scroll as normal but when I click on one the page doesn't open.

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Auto startup of programs when start computer - how do i stop??!!!, Auto startup of programs when start computer - how do i stop??!!!

When I restart or start my computer, it automatically opens up uTorrent (but no other programs).
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When I updated Firefox to version 32, it started to always show my tabs from the last session when it is started. I tried changing the option "when Firefox starts" to all three of the available choices. None of these changed the behavior. It still opens the tabs that were last opened. I waited for the next release (33.0.3) but the behavior is still the same. I would like Firefox to open to my selected home page.
I'm running Windows 7 Pro.

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Hi, I am using Windows XP and I installed Adobe Reader X 10.1.3 But after I installed Adobe, I could not open any files except the ones on desktop. I can not use any of them from Start or Control Panel. I tried to uninstall Adobe from Control Panel>Default Programs>Program Install/Unistall but still tries to open with Adobe. Is there any other way that I can uninstall?

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