Window Clock Listed 4 Times in Startup Items

Hello, all!
On the job I work on a Mac running 10.3.9, and I have an odd little question. Everything runs fine, but I was curious about this.
In my System Preferences I have the Date & Time control panel set to show the Date and Time, view in window, view as digital. This places a handy little date calendar on the screen that I can always have displayed in a window that I can move around as I please.
I have two monitors hooked up to the Mac. I large main display where I do my main work, and than a smaller "slave" monitor where I position my application pallettes and programs I leave open all the time. It is there that I position the WindowClock.
The odd thing is that when I check the Startup Items in the Accounts Control Panel the WindowClock is listed 4 times.
I'm wondering if it's safe to delete 3 of them.
PowerBook G4 Mac OS X (10.4.5) My first Mac was a IIcx. Those were the days!

Hi rngman
I just tried your setup and put the clock on the desktop - its quite good isn't it - and then did a restart - got to test these things out - and it was where I left it in the desktop, and no it wasn't added to the Start-up items, and nor it should have been.
So you could strike all four of them out, and you would still be OK.
regards roam

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Add more RAM or cut back on concurrent applications. Startup Item is irrelevant.
Try these in order testing your system after each to see if it's back to normal:
1. a. Resetting your Mac's PRAM and NVRAM
 b. Intel-based Macs: Resetting the System Management Controller (SMC)
2. Restart the computer in Safe Mode, then restart again, normally. If this doesn't help, then:
Boot to the Recovery HD: Restart the computer and after the chime press and hold down the COMMAND and R keys until the Utilities menu screen appears. Alternatively, restart the computer and after the chime press and hold down the OPTION key until the boot manager screen appears. Select the Recovery HD and click on the downward pointing arrow button.
3. Repair the Hard Drive and Permissions: Upon startup select Disk Utility from the Utilities menu. Repair the Hard Drive and Permissions as follows.
When the recovery menu appears select Disk Utility. After DU loads select your hard drive entry (mfgr.'s ID and drive size) from the the left side list. In the DU status area you will see an entry for the S.M.A.R.T. status of the hard drive. If it does not say "Verified" then the hard drive is failing or failed. (SMART status is not reported on external Firewire or USB drives.) If the drive is "Verified" then select your OS X volume from the list on the left (sub-entry below the drive entry,) click on the First Aid tab, then click on the Repair Disk button. If DU reports any errors that have been fixed, then re-run Repair Disk until no errors are reported. If no errors are reported click on the Repair Permissions button. Wait until the operation completes, then quit DU and return to the main menu. Select Restart from the Apple menu.
4. Reinstall Yosemite: Reboot from the Recovery HD. Select Reinstall OS X from the Utilities menu, and click on the Continue button.
Note: You will need an active Internet connection. I suggest using Ethernet if possible
 because it is three times faster than wireless.
5. Reinstall Yosemite from Scratch:
Be sure you backup your files to an external drive or second internal drive because the following procedure will remove everything from the hard drive.
How to Clean Install OS X Yosemite
Note: You will need an active Internet connection. I suggest using Ethernet if possible
 because it is three times faster than wireless.

Launchd, Startup Item crud - -what am I doing wrong?

So, I have a startup item which works when I type
sudo SystemStarter start MayaFlexlm
Works great. Spawns flexlm, a daemon that listens for incoming connections for licensing.
Trouble is, it does not automatically start on reboot. I always have to type that command to make it run. This is obviously a problem and I don't understand why SystemStarter doesn't do what it claims.
So I said, good time to migrate to launchd. When I made a plist, however, and tried to run it with
sudo launchctl load -w /Library/LaunchDaemons/com.rcook.mayaflexlm.plist
I get nothing in the system log, no daemon running, and life ***. Can someone take a look at my code and tell me what I'm doing wrong?
Here is the Startup Item which works:
=====================================
#!/bin/sh
Maya license server daemon startup, hacked up by Rich Cook extenstion 3=9605
. /etc/rc.common
StartService ()
if RUNNING=$(/usr/aw/COM/bin/lmstat -c /var/flexlm/aw_server.dat | grep -v 'not running' >/dev/null 2>&1); then
ConsoleMessage "Starting Maya flexlm server."
/usr/aw/COM/bin/aw_flexlm start
else
ConsoleMessage "Maya license server (flexlm) is already running."
fi
StopService ()
ConsoleMessage "Stopping Maya flexlm server"
/usr/aw/COM/bin/aw_flexlm stop
RestartService ()
StopService
StartService
RunService "$1"
======================================================
Here is the launch daemon which makes me hate Apple Computers:
======================================================
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" "http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd">
<plist version="1.0">
<dict>
<key>RunAtLoad</key>
<true/>
<key>Label</key>
<string>rcook.mayaflexlm</string>
<key>ProgramArguments</key>
<array>
<string>/usr/aw/COM/bin/aw_flexlm</string>
<string>start</string>
</array>
<key>ServiceDescription</key>
<string>Maya FlexLM licensing for Maya and CityEngine</string>
</dict>
</plist>
=====================================================

wealthychef wrote:
As one of our scaly unpleasant friends was hinting at, labels are not used for much by launchd; they have little operational significance, I believe.
I've never seen one whose label was different that the file name (less .plist) so it's a good thing to change anyway. Perhaps labels are only used to identify them in a human-readable listing.
I do get an error in the log, though, which I think means that the process exited immediately.
That is an important plot point.
Perhaps there launchd expects the daemon to keep running and kills it if it doesn't? I recall in the man page or somewhere they said the process cannot daemonize itself.
That is correct.
aw_flexlm starts the actual license software and then exits. This is probably my problem. But I didn't write this code -- all I want is for this thing to start up on launch. I will trust it won't crash.
Is aw_flexlm a binary or a script?
If it is a script, you should be able to look inside and find where it actually kicks off a program. Duplicate that line and turn it into an echo. Run it and now you'll have your actual executable and arguments.
If aw_flexlm is a binary, you will have to look for documentation for it. There are sometimes options that will prevent some or all of the various daemonization actions.
I did a quick check and it seems that aw_flexlm is indeed a script. You should be able to look around in it. The 'start' operation is easy. See what it does for the 'stop' operation. Launchd can't perform any complicated shutdown process. It expects the program to shutdown cleanly if killed. Not all programs will do that.

CS4 products adding required Startup items to MSCONFIG

Adobe CS products for Windows install several items in the Startup tab in MSCONIG. As a rule, Startup items are unnecessary and take up RAM and other resources. Until I installed the CS products I had no items checked in the Startup tab which meant my PC started up (and shut down) quickly and only the bare minimum of standard Windows OS programs were running in the background. The Adobe CS install added five items: CS4ServiceManager, AdobeCollabSync, a blank line with no Startup Item name or Command line text (I have submitted a general forum query about that line), Acrotray, Acrobat_sl and Reader_sl. In previous installs Adobe added Adobe Acrobat Speed Launcher, Adobe Gamma, Adobe Reader Speed Launcher, and Adobe Reader Synchronizer.
I would prefer that Adobe not add anything to my Startup tab. I don't want any unnecessary programs running in the background. And I don't want any company forcing me to run programs in the background. Note: If you uncheck CS4ServiceManager, AdobeCollabSync or that strange blank line, Adobe CS products will not run. Instead, they will start, an error message (148:3) will appear, and the programs will close.
With this surreptitious Startup program installation, I get the sense that "Big Brother" is watching. Since no other company that I'm aware of adds items to the Startup list that are REQUIRED to run their software, I'm sure Adobe can change it's install routine to not add items to the Startup clutter.
Jeff Sengstack

This is a user 2 user forum. You are speaking to fellow users. If you want to speak to Adobe:
https://www.adobe.com/cfusion/mmform/index.cfm?name=wishform

My Mac (10.7.5) Keeps forgetting startup items.

There doesn't seem to be a OSX Lion categorie, so...
I need a lot of apps to open when I start my computer. I know how to do this but sometimes it resets and there are no items in the startup items.
Also accompanied with this is my User account picture is reset at the same time.
I don't care for my account picture but the Startup items is too tedious and annoying to fix every time this happens.
It also happens randomly. It happened this morning, but might happen again tomorrow, or in a month.
Any ideas for the issue/fixes?

Open a Finder window. From the Finder menu bar click Go > Go to Folder
Type or copy paste the following:
~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.loginitems.plist
Click Go then move the com.apple.loginitems.plist file to the Trash.
Restart your Mac.

CANT DELETE STARTUP ITEMS FORM PANE!!!

Hi,
I've posted, asked a lot and tried lot of things, but the "Startup Items" window under the accounts pane in Sys Prefs. is now 75 and counting!!! and I'm feeling there's nothing I can do about it!!!
I can't delete the startup items wich all of them read "Extensis Suitcase X1" and "Unknown". Obiously I installed Suitcase and told the app to load at startup, but i feels like auto-duplicates each time I start up the Mac!
I first autenthicate, then select wether one by one or many of them at a time. Click on the "-" button, and nothing! They still remain there like sticked whit cement glue!
Someone could tell me what's next???
Thanks!!

Hi, Jota and Richard —
Jota, I don't use Suitcase — and thus can't test solutions — so I'll limit my suggestions.
(1) You may find a specific answer by searching the Extensis KnowledgeBase from this Support web-page. Here are results from a search using terms [login items] — including how to uninstall, problems with multiple accounts, their "Top 5 Troubleshooting Steps" for Mac, etc. I've read through enough of the articles to realize that installing and troubleshooting their software can get pretty complex — so I think following their instructions would be wise...
(2) Have you checked in your HD's /Library/StartupItems/ folder?
(3) I'm not clear on whether you're trying to troubleshoot a problem that may relate to Startup/Login Items. If so, please recall that booting into Safe Mode may help to troubleshoot font, font-cache, and startup-items problems.
Good luck!
Dean
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Startup items

My prefs settings have somehow changed and my startup items are not working - retrospect / suitcase etc - my fonts in Photoshop and Quark etc are also not loading - I have ran the utility disc a few times and it was fixing the problem, but now it's not.

Repairing the permissions of a home folder in Lion is a complicated procedure. I don’t know of a simpler one that always works.
Launch the Terminal application in any of the following ways:
☞ Enter the first few letters of its name into a Spotlight search. Select it in the results (it should be at the top.)
☞ In the Finder, select Go ▹ Utilities from the menu bar, or press the key combination shift-command-U. The application is in the folder that opens.
☞ Open LaunchPad. Click Utilities, then Terminal in the page that opens.
Drag or copy — do not type — the following line into the Terminal window, then press return:
chmod -R -N ~
The command will take a noticeable amount of time to run. When a new line ending in a dollar sign ($) appears below what you entered, it’s done. You may see a few error messages about an “invalid argument” while the command is running. You can ignore those. If you get an error message with the words “Permission denied,” enter this:
sudo !!
You'll be prompted for your login password, which won't be displayed when you type it. You may get a one-time warning not to screw up.
Next, boot from your recovery partition by holding down the key combination command-R at startup. Release the keys when you see a gray screen with a spinning dial.
When the recovery desktop appears, select Utilities ▹ Terminal from the menu bar.
In the Terminal window, enter “resetpassword” (without the quotes) and press return. A Reset Password window opens. You’re not going to reset the password.
Select your boot volume if not already selected.
Select your username from the menu labeled Select the user account if not already selected.
Under Reset Home Directory Permissions and ACLs, click the Reset button.
Select  ▹ Restart from the menu bar.

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