ITunes starts up automatically

Question

recently, my iTunes started starting up automatically. i read in an old archived forum to solve this problem just disable any iTunes widgets and that took care of the problem.
has anybody else had this problem? and why after using the widget for quite a while did it suddenly start doing this?
cheers
ibook   Mac OS X (10.4.7)   japanese OS

Answer 1

I see that you "answered it", but here are a few tips for those who may be reading:
First: Check your login items! Open System Preferences (Applications folder), the click on accounts. Select your user account on the left, and click the "Login Items" tab. Whatever you see there will open upon boot, or more specifically, login to your account. You SHOULD see an item called "iTunes Helper", but make sure that "iTunes", the application, is not listed. If it is, select it, and click the "-" button below. You may need admin authentication (password), to remove login items.
Second: Check your iPod Preferences (if you have one). In iTunes 7, you select your attached iPod in the source list. On the "Summary" screen, you should see a bunch of check boxes at the bottom - one will read "Open iTunes when iPod is attached". Uncheck this box, and click apply. If you're using iTunes 6 or earlier, it's in the "General" pane of the iPod's preferences. You can access the preferenes by selecting the icon on the bottom left corner of the window, if I rememeber. It's also part of iTunes general preferences - just click the "iPod" tab.
You'll need to repeat this for every different iPod you attach to this machine, or if you restore your iPod.
Third: Go back to system preferences. You'll see a preference pane called "CDs & DVDs". Open it. This tells the Mac what to do when such a disc is inserted into the drive. Make sure that nothing says "Open iTunes".
If none of these work, you should try the age-old recomendations of verifying and repairing permissions (using Disk Utility: /Applications/Utilities), or zapping the PRAM. (Search Apple's support site using PRAM and your Mac model). If those don't succede, I bow to someone of greater knowledge.
I hope this may be of assitance to someone,
-Dan
15" 1.67 Powerbook G4 (Jan 2005), 400 mhz AGP Sawtooth G4   Mac OS X (10.4.8)   4G Clickwheel and 5G Vid iPods