How to stop Mac from starting opening applications that were on when I shut it down?

When my wife wants to finish using her Air she just shuts it down.  Upon restarting it later, however, it launches every application she had been using earlier in the day.  Is there a way to turn this off?

when you hit  > Shutdown  there comes a dialog. disable the checkbox "reopen windows when logging back in"

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