Login items not hiding

I mount several network drives upon login using the "Login Items", however the hide option does not supress the finder windows from opening

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Disable Mac OS X Lion Resume & App Window Restore Completely

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Login items not saved

I haven't read about this one yet so I thought I should at least mention it. Since my upgrade to 10.9 the login items for my (admin) user account are not being saved. After a reboot the list is empty again. I have re-entered them several times but that just seems a bit pointless now Also repaired permissions on the OS X drive, just for good measure but to no avail. Login items are Mail, Messages and just one third party app: Google Chrome.
So.... Bug or something else I should try?

This happened to me from an out-the-box mac without any 3rd party software installed which makes me think this is a mavericks issue as opposed to anything else installed after.
Im not trying to be a dick BTW.
Hardware Information:
          MacBook Pro (Retina, 15-inch, Late 2013)
          MacBook Pro - model: MacBookPro11,3
          1 2.3 GHz Intel Core i7 CPU: 4 cores
          16 GB RAM
Video Information:
          Intel Iris Pro - VRAM: 1024 MB
          NVIDIA GeForce GT 750M - VRAM: 2048 MB
Audio Plug-ins:
          BluetoothAudioPlugIn: Version: 1.0
          AirPlay: Version: 1.9
          AppleAVBAudio: Version: 2.0.0
          iSightAudio: Version: 7.7.3
System Software:
          OS X 10.9 (13A3017) - Uptime: 0 days 17:32:34
Disk Information:
          APPLE SSD SM0512F disk0 : (500.28 GB)
                    EFI (disk0s1) <not mounted>: 209.7 MB
                    Macintosh HD (disk0s2) /: 499.42 GB (269.05 GB free)
                    Recovery HD (disk0s3) <not mounted>: 650 MB
USB Information:
          Apple Internal Memory Card Reader
          Apple, Inc. Keyboard Hub
                    Apple, Inc Apple Keyboard
          Action Star USB2.0 Hub
                    Action Star USB HID
          Apple Inc. Display Audio
          Apple Inc. Apple LED Cinema Display
          Apple Inc. Display iSight
          Apple Inc. BRCM20702 Hub
                    Apple Inc. Bluetooth USB Host Controller
          Apple Inc. Apple Internal Keyboard / Trackpad
FireWire Information:
Thunderbolt Information:
          Apple Inc. thunderbolt_bus
                    Apple Inc. Thunderbolt to Gigabit Ethernet Adapter
Kernel Extensions:
          at.obdev.nke.LittleSnitch          (4052)
Problem System Launch Daemons:
Problem System Launch Agents:
Launch Daemons:
          [loaded] at.obdev.littlesnitchd.plist
          [loaded] com.adobe.SwitchBoard.plist
          [loaded] com.cisco.anyconnect.vpnagentd.plist
          [loaded] com.microsoft.office.licensing.helper.plist
          [loaded] com.vyprvpn.authorization.plist
Launch Agents:
          [loaded] at.obdev.LittleSnitchUIAgent.plist
          [not loaded] com.adobe.AAM.Updater-1.0.plist
          [loaded] com.cisco.anyconnect.gui.plist
          [loaded] com.wacom.wacomtablet.plist
User Launch Agents:
          [loaded] com.google.keystone.agent.plist
User Login Items:
          iTunesHelper
          Alfred 2
          Google Drive
          Dropbox
          Mail
          MemoryFreer
3rd Party Preference Panes:
          Java
          WacomTablet
Internet Plug-ins:
          Default Browser.plugin
          JavaAppletPlugin.plugin
          QuickTime Plugin.plugin
          SharePointBrowserPlugin.plugin
          WacomNetscape.plugin
          WacomTabletPlugin.plugin
User Internet Plug-ins:
Bad Fonts:
          None
Time Machine:
          Time Machine not configured!
Top Processes by CPU:
              15%          osascript
               4%          WindowServer
               1%          iTunes
               1%          SystemUIServer
               1%          Little Snitch Agent
               1%          coreaudiod
               1%          EtreCheck
               1%          MemoryFreer
               1%          fontd
               1%          taskgated
Top Processes by Memory:
          410 MB             WindowServer
          328 MB             firefox
          229 MB             Finder
          197 MB             Safari
          180 MB             Mail
          180 MB             iTunes
          164 MB             com.apple.WebKit.WebContent
          147 MB             Skype
          131 MB             Adium
          115 MB             mds_stores
Virtual Memory Statistics:
          9.14 GB            Free RAM
          3.97 GB            Active RAM
          694 MB             Inactive RAM
          1.32 GB            Wired RAM
          1.04 GB            Page-ins
          0 B                Page-outs

Hidden login items not working

Hello I currently have both messages and email open at startup. I wanted to make them open without opening a window so i selected "hide" in login items; however, for some reason this does not work. I got email to hide but messages wouldn't. But now messages will hide and email will not.

Instead of dragging, click on the + button, navigate to Quicksilver, and add it.

New/Modified login items not saving

Within the System Preferences > Users & Groups > Login Items (for Admin user)....
I am trying to add an application to open upon login. However when I add it (both with the Lock unlocked or locked)... and then reboot it doesn't save.
I set the new login items, and even remove an old one... exit System Preferences. All appears saved when I go back into it (meaning it sticks).
However upon reboot... the new app doesn't start upon login.
I go back into system preferences pane and the changes are no longer present. So it isn't really actually saving my changes.
Any ideas?

Triple-click anywhere in the line below on this page to select it:
~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.loginitems.plist
Right-click or control-click the highlighted line and select
Services ▹ Show Info in Finder (or just Show Info)
from the contextual menu.* An Info dialog should open.
Does the dialog show "You can read and write" in the Sharing & Permissions section?
In the General section, is the box labeled Locked checked?
What is the Modified date?
If you don't have read and write access to the item, change the settings as directed here. Note, however, that if one file has wrong access settings, most likely others do as well. If the item is locked, unlock it.
*If you don't see the contextual menu item, copy the selected text to the Clipboard by pressing the key combination command-C. Open a TextEdit window and paste into it (command-V). Select the line you just pasted and continue as above.

Login items - not in user prefs

My wonderful imac os x - tiger 10.4.7 opens 3 items (safari, mail and ichat) that are not in the startup items list.
As the initial login takes ages I want to remove them, but as they don't appear in the list under accounts/login items I can't.
I have tried adding them so they do appear and then deleting them, but that doesn't fix it, they still open on login.
Any ideas how I can fix this.

"Login Items" can be specified in at least three different places. The usual one (written to by the "Accounts" pref pane) is the "~/Library/Preferences/loginwindow.plist" file in each user's "home" folder, but if the items aren't appearing in the pref pane, they are probably listed in one of the other locations.
The other user-specific file is in the "~/Library/Preferences/ByHost" folder, and is called the "loginwindow.xxx.plist" file, where the "xxx" usually represents the MAC address of the built-in ethernet card, so will vary from computer to computer. If present, try moving or deleting that file to see if that prevents the unwanted items from opening.
The computer's main "/Library/Preferences" folder can also contain a "loginwindow.plist" file, but any items listed in that file will open at login for all users. "Admin" privileges will usually be required to remove or make changes to this file.
Also, note that a computer's administrator can set up "login items" for "managed" users, through 'mcx_settings'. Again, this isn't something that an individual user can override themselves.
This probably isn't what you are after, but unless explicitly prohibited in 'mcx_settings', it also is possible during any given log in to prevent login items from opening by holding down the "Shift" key while logging in, but it would be necessary to do this every time.

Login Items not launching

I have a strange problem where if I reboot my Mac, any menu bar icons I have launching on startup load. This involves iStat as well as the battery meter. The only icons I get are Airport and Spotlight.
I have checked for the Divxnetwork.prev file as listed at http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=307000 but I don't have that file.
Any items under Login Items in Accounts do launch, but anything menu bar related doesn't. I've trashed various preference plists such as com.apple.Menuxxx as well as login item plists but still this problem remains.
Any ideas?

Open SysPrefs > General and unselect the option to "restore windows when quitting and re-opening apps." Then, when you log out make sure and unselect the option to "reopen windows when logging back in." You can quickly do this latter by tapping the space bar.

When i login to my mac, it opens iTunes, Skype and AIM. I've tried deleting these from the login items, but they are not on the list. Can anyone help?

When i login to my mac, it opens iTunes, Skype and AIM. I've tried deleting these from the login items, but they are not on the list. Can anyone help?

babowa wrote:
If you do not lock that folder immediately after deleting all the contents, it will simply populate again (Resume - a "feature" in Lion). You do that by doing a Get Info (highlight folder and press Command + I keys), unlock the lock at the bottom, enter your admin password, then check the box to lock the folder. lock the lock and you're done.
Yes, that is correct. The alternative is to quit all applications prior to logging out. Lion will then have a chance to remove the saved states.
babowa also wrote:
And, for the OP:
It has also been a regular feature of Mac OS to automatically open any window that was open at shutdown. To avoit that behavior, simply close any Finder windows and properly quit applications by closing their window and using Command + Q (or File >Quit).
This was true only for the Finder. Prior to Lion, no other apps would launch unless they were included in the Login Items for the account. And the OS would not restore windows for other apps.
A very small number of apps (TextWrangler is an example) implemented this capability prior to Lion. They could restore previously opened windows. But that is an application feature, and can be controlled by the application's preferences. Lion implements it at the system level, and users have virtually no control on a per application basis.

Hi I do not want iTunes to open up automatically when I turn on my macbook pro. I tried going to System Preferences Users and Groups Login Items and then I took iTunes off the list but it still opens up automatically when I turn on my laptop.

Hi I do not want iTunes to open up automatically when I turn on my macbook pro. I tried going to System Preferences>Users and Groups>Login Items and then I took iTunes off the list but it still opens up automatically when I turn on my laptop. What should I do?

Hi r,
Make sure you close iTunes before shutdown. And you're quite welcome.

How can I stop Preview from opening at startup even though it is not listed in my Login Items?

When I log into one of my user accounts in my MacBook Pro (Mountain Lion), Preview is always open. The preview window itself is not open but the application name is active in the menu bar in the top left hand corner. The Preview item on the taskbar is also lit. Both of these indicate to me that Preview is running. However, I checked my Login Items repeatedly and Preview is not even listed. I also make sure that when logging out, the "Reopen windows when logging out" is unchecked. But Preview still always opens whenever I log into this particular user account -- it does not do it in any of my other user accounts. How can I fix this?

Thanks. I got to the bottom of it by checking Login Items. I had Flux, iTunes Helper, and Dropbox. I removed the first two from Login Items, leaving only Dropbox. However, when I rebooted and logged in, Preview was still open and Flux and iTunes Helper were back in the Login Items. To find out which application is the culprit, I looked under Flux's Preferences settings and disabled it from opening at login. I was intending to do it for every application until I find the culprit, but doing so to Flux solved the problem.

How do I stop Adobe Bridge, Excel, Word and Adobe Photo Downloader from loading at startup under Mac OS 10.7.1, they are not loaded in login items.

How do I stop Adobe Bridge, Excel, Word and Adobe Photo Downloader from loading at startup under Mac OS 10.7.1, they are not loaded in login items.

When you shut down this window appears.
Uncheck the reopen box and it should stop this from happening

How do I stop Pages from opening when I log back in? Login items are not ticked.

Prior to Yosemite I had trouble with Pages where it closed down the app when I closed a document.
I was given a command line to put in the 'Terminal' to deactivate Pages. This worked.
That command was - -g NSDisableAutomaticTermination -bool TRUE/False. But that isn't recognised any longer when I reverse the True/False.
But I now don't want Pages to open automatically when I Log in.
The box is not ticked for Pages in System Preferences- Users- Login Items.

It needs to be removed from the list, not just unticked.
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Mail not hiding as it should on Login

I have Mail in my Login Items menu, and i have the 'hide' checkbox checked. But when i log in, it still shows the mail window, it's just not highlighted. I want it to open but be hidden. any suggestions? (i only have one account. so it's not that i am in a diff. acct.)

Open the Script Editor in the /Applications/AppleScript/ folder and enter the following:
tell application "Mail"
run
end tell
delay 2
tell application "System Events"
set visible of process "Mail" to false
end tell
Save the script as an application and add it to the list of login items; turn off the option to display the startup screen when the script runs. The original Mail application can then be removed from the list.
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Safari will not open as a Login Item

All other applications set as Login Item start ok but not Safari. Apple Support say this is as it should be. Why? Safari worked as a Login Item under my very old OS X so why the retrograde step? Apple Support said to set Safari's preference to Open with all windows from last session but it is still necessary to open Safari from the Dock first! Any help?

Hello Mr Hemphill
Thank you for such a speedy response, I see you have been very busy today. I too use wi-fi, which connects instantaneously and therefore I do not accept this as a valid reason especially as I did not experience this problem with my old Mac which had quite a poor wi-fi service. And even if it were to be the case those of us who do not have slow wi-fi connection should not be penalised for the sake of those that do - all they need do is not use this option for Safari.
When Apple Support told me that "this is as it should be" I asked why System Preferences allows Safari to be selected in the first place. They had no answer. I also note from previous discussions that this problem started long ago. There must be a more valid reason.
Best regards
Marcus

Items start at login but are not in login items list

items start at login but are not in login items list

That is normal in Lion and Mountain Lion. Those systems try to reopen any apps that were open when you shut down. To stop that from happening, simply uncheck the box in the shut down dialog:

Why is it when I select my personal preferences/user/login items, that when i select the check box for items to NOT pop up on my dock when i restart and start my macbook air 11 inch that they still continue to?

why is it that every time i start up my macbook air and when i restart it, that the new office with word and those three other apps constantly pop up? even though i went to personal preferences/users/login items, and selected the box that clearly says "items to NOT be brought up when logging in" ?

If you don't want to start Office automatically when your Mac starts, see > http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/mac/forum/macoffice2011-macword/how-do-i-prev ent-microsoft-office-2011-word-from/dd5b8b17-8397-4e7c-b635-79b9c976c4ab?msgId=f 00ac42a-e4fe-43aa-83d7-16ccd35a0d8a
Also, on System Preferences > Users & Groups > Login Items, select all items related to Office and press - button to delete them

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