How can I stop apps from opening automatically on start-up?

I liked Snow Leopard better. When I quit, all the apps went away, and the new start-up was clean.
Lion forces me to wait for each app to open, unless I took the trouble to close it before shut down.
I turned Settings > General > Restore... off, but it doesn't help.

IF you want it (Resume) off system wide, there are a couple of tweaks possible; here is one I have been using successfully since August:
Go to (now hidden) User Library (hold down Option key while going to "Go" in menu bar. Once Library is open, scroll down to Saved Application State folder. Open folder and trash all contents. Do a get info (Command + I keys), unlock lock at bottom of window, input admin password, scroll up and tick the "locked" option. Lock the lock at the bottom and you're done. With the folder locked, nothing can be written to it.....
I still make it a practice though to properly quit all applications. Since I've never worked with Windows, I've always been used to Cmd+Q any app I'm done with instead of just closing the window as it is practice in Windows. I do that because it has always been Mac OS behavior to open up automatically whatever window that was open when you shut down or restarted.

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