Programs that automatically open on startup

Can anyone tell me how to STOP Skype from automatically opening on Start up of my MBPro ? It never did this and I haven't updated OSX lately, nor can I with 10.4.11. Skype now opens when I power on my mac, then hangs - always, and I have to force quit it. There is NO option in Skype's own menu list to stop it from auto opening on start up. Grrrr
Thanks to you if you can help.

Open the Accounts pane of System Preferences and check the list of login items for your user account.
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I just installed mountain lion. I noticed that when the computer starts up microsoft windows and excel open automatically. I have another application that does it sometimes as well. why do some applications automatically open at startup? How can I change this?

Quit them before shutting down the computer, and check the list of login items in the Users & Groups pane of System Preferences.
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In System Preferences / General make sure the Restore Windows ...... is unchecked.
Also uncheck in the shutdown dialog box

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Do you mean Entourage? It appears you have Office 2004 or older. Those are PowerPC apps only and will not run in Lion or later. If you need access to those emails like, "RIGHT NOW!", then I would suggest purchasing Office 2011 for Mac. Outlook is the new Office email client in 2011 and can import your older Entourage data.

I need a program that will open .itl

I need the "appropriate program" to access my:
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iTunes 4 Music Library.itl
TYPE:
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Somebody will me somethingI can use. I've been working on this ALL day!!!

The only program that can open that file is iTunes.
Why would you want to access it outside of iTunes?

Is there a program that can open .desktop icons?

Hi.
I am 15 years old and have downloaded a game thats called Planetside 2 with the program wine and winebottler. It installed perfectly and leaved a icon thats named Planetside2.PSG.desktop. I didn't exit the window until the planetside 2 have uploaded everything. After one day I decided to play Planetside 2 but I couldn't open that icon. Not even my winebottler couldn't open it. Is there a way or a program that can open that. (I do not want any suggestions buy virtual machines because I don't have a disk reader that can run cd´s).
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1. Installed Planetside 2
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3. Waited Planetside 2 to upload ( I went about 3 hours so I went to bed).
4. Next morning, tried to use the shortcut (Planetside2.PSG.desktop) to launch it.
5. Searching if there was anything more installed in the computer and I couldn't find anything except that desktop icon.
Well there is one opertuntity that works but it takes a LONG time because I have to install it again and click the repear option to even open Planetside 2.
My computer is a Macbook air with operating system OS X 10.8.4. (its not mountain lion but it was no more option).

Thanks, I should talk to the support and now I know where my game is! I had the problem to find Planetside was one of the problems and it was in a windows c:drive that is almost impossible to find (Spotlight and Finder searches doesn't work). But I found a program that can find EVERY single program which is OmniDiskSweeper. It calculates every folders and programs size and lays a display on how much spaces it takes on your computer. If anyone have problem to find the windows C:drive I can guide you like this:
Machintosh HD>Users>Your computer name (Which would take a lot of gbytes)>Library(Its probably here the folder Library doesn't show up)>Application Support>com.yourcompany.yourapp.??>there is your windows c:drive!
Maybe in some computers it doesn't work but it worked for me how I found my C:drive. I was using a program called wine so that maybe explains the dissapering. Wine laid it on the C:drive.

I have connected my laptop to a separate monitor but it is only bringing up the background, not the programs that are open. Help?

I have connected my laptop to a separate monitor but it is only bringing up the background image, not the programs that are open. Help? I assume there is a simple solution. Thank you in advance.

That's called extended desktop mode. You can think of it as an extension of your main screen probably off to the right. Drag an app off the screen to the right and it will appear on the second monitor. You can see and adjust placement of the second monitor in System Preferences > Displays > arrangement tab. Drag the second screen around for your optimum placement. Also the little bar can be moved to either screen and that determines which screen will contain the dock/menubar.
Also you can toggle between Mirror and extend desktop mode by pressing CMD F1.
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Go to the Apple menu > System Preferences > Users & Groups and click on the user in question then on "Login Items."
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For general advice see Troubleshooting issues with iTunes for Windows updates.
The steps in the second box are a guide to removing everything related to iTunes and then rebuilding it which is often a good starting point unless the symptoms indicate a more specific approach. Review the other boxes and the list of support documents further down the page in case one of them applies.
Your library should be unaffected by these steps but there is backup and recovery advice elsewhere in the user tip.
If the advice above doesn't resolve things you could try this alternate version:
iTunes 12.1.0.71 for Windows (64-bit - for older video cards) - itunes64setup.exe (2015-01-28)
which is a 64-bit installer for the 32-bit version of the core application, similar to previous 64-bit releases. Or roll back to the previous build:
iTunes 12.0.1.26 for Windows (32-bit) - iTunesSetup.exe (2014-10-16)
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Go to System Preferences - Accessibility - Voiceover - turn off Voiceover. The shortcut is command-F5, so possibly you pressed that accidentally.
Matt

How do I stop Firefox from automatically opening on startup since last update on Macintosh running Tiger?

Firefox automatically starts itself on start-up every time. I don't want it to. If I want it on, I'll click on it. I don't go on the internet every single time I start up my computer and don't like having to WAIT for it to start up so I can quit it. I don't know why it does this - never did before - and it is EXTREMELY annoying! HELP! I'm on a Macintosh operating with Tiger OS.

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1. click start (or the windows flag button at the bottom left) 2. in the "search programs and files" or the RUN dialog box, enter "msconfig.exe" or "msconfig". 3. That should open the system configuration program. 4. click the "Startup" tab at the top of the opened program. 5. Under the "startup item" column, look for Mozilla firefox. 6. uncheck that one. 7. Click OK or apply. 8. click "exit without restart". 9. you're good to go.

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We had opened some of the standard programs (With access key) and made the modifications as per the OSS note some time back, the programs that were modified are still open for editing even now and the client is concerned about the sanctity of the standard programs as they are open for everyone any one can make changes to the programs, how one can make sure that the object once opened should be closed immediately afer applying modifications, does SAP has any kind of mechanism using which we can track this,
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Rgds,

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I have a WORD file with my internet passwords that I want to automatically open when I start the computer. I did this once, but I can't remember how to do it. I've checked the System Preferences and the Finder, but I can't find any way to do it again.

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