How can I stop iPhoto from launching automatically

Whenever I start up my Mac, iPhoto launches automatically. How can I prevent this to happen?

Depends - if you have any FAT formatted device attached to your Mac then you must either disconnect it or in the iPhoto preferences set action when a camera is connected to do nothing
If you have told the system to launch iPhoto on start up then you need to now tell it not to (right click on the iPhoto icon in the Dock and see if that is checked)
There also is a place to set start up items in system preferences
LN

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