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Considering the Activity Monitor being able to manually disable programs running in the background. How do I permanently disable programs running in the background ?
Not all these programs appear in the System Preferences >> Users & Groups >> Login Items
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jojojona wrote:
Considering the Activity Monitor being able to manually disable programs running in the background. How do I permanently disable programs running in the background ?...
You might want to make a full clone backup of your boot drive before you start disabling processes unless you know what software those processes support since you may break software you need. For example, Creative Cloud is Adobe software; do you use any Adobe software which might depend on Creative Cloud running?

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