Turn off applications opening when restarting computer

I hate in Lion how when I restart my computer, all of the applications I had open before reopen. Can I turn that off? It takes start up forever. I've seen how to uncheck "Restore windows when quitting and reopening apps" and I've uncheck that, but it doesn't work for this case. I just want to start up like normal and I pick the apps I want to open at the time.
What do I need to do?

First, the best thing to do is to make sure that you quit applications before shutting down; also, check in your Users & Groups Pane in System Prefeences to see what if anything you have in Login items. If you don't want it to open, delete it from there.
Thirdly, if you want to turn off any chance that any apps will open, you can do the following; please note that this is system wide, so don't do it unless you don't want anything to open:
Go to your User's Library (now hidden) by pressing the Option key and going to Go in Finder menu. Scroll down to Library and open it. Scroll down to Saved Application State folder. Open that folder and delete every entry. Then hightlight the folder icon and press these keys: Command and I. In the resulting window, scroll down and unlock the lock and enter your password. Scroll up and tick the "locked" option. Then lock the lock by clicking it. Done.

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