Program automatically opens at start up

right now hp photosmart opens automatically when i power on my mac. how do i make it so that is won't? thanks!

do a spotlight search for the program there may be an alas in the startup items folder. if there is just trash it also in the program look in its preferences there may be an option to turn that feature off ("open on startup/ bootup" normaly it is this in msn)

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up and open to the welcome screen on start up. It doesn't happen
consistently but both my colleague and I have experienced it
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