Adding Programs to OSX Startup

brianmacosbrianmacos
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in macOS edited January 2014
Ok I have owned my first Mac for about a month now. I figured out when I first got my iBook on how to add programs to startup but now I forgot... Thanks for the help people. FYI I want to add Yahoo Messenger to startup previous I figured out AIM but that was in the first couple of days owning my system. <img src="confused.gif" border="0">

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  • Reply 1 of 7
    ghost_user_nameghost_user_name Posts: 22,667member
    System Preferences -&gt; Login -&gt; Login Items -&gt; Add...







    Important note: there is a bug in Mac OS X (already fixed in the 10.2 Jaguar builds) where some Cocoa apps will not launch immediately after login. The only solution is to wait and launch it manually. If you don't know if an app is Carbon or Cocoa, just experiment around and see if it will launch as a "login item". I suspect that Yahoo Messenger is probably Carbon; so, it should work fine.
  • Reply 2 of 7
    brianmacosbrianmacos Posts: 548member
    Cool thanks. Hey one other thing I notice in my login that it has an itunes helper thing that starts up every time my comp startup do I need this in there?



    [ 07-07-2002: Message edited by: BrianMacOS ]</p>
  • Reply 3 of 7
    scott f.scott f. Posts: 276member
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    I'm glad someone reminded me to ask this... I noticed that when I tell my little shareware & freeware apps to launch at Login, it takes FOREVER for them to launch and make the computer usable... but today, I yanked ALL of them from the login pane. The system logged-in MUCH faster and when I launched the utilities on their own, THEY launched much faster;



    Example: With about 4 apps set to launch on login... it took about 3 minutes to login and all 4 apps to fully load (WeatherPop, Snard, DesktopCalendar & Suitcase).



    When I took them OUT of login, the system logged in and was ready within 15 seconds, and it took seconds to launch each app manually... so let's round-off to 30 seconds total as opposed to 3 Minutes.



    Any clue as to why this happens...? Is it because they're all "launched" at the same time at login and "clogging the pipeline"...? I tend to doubt it... If I'm already logged-in and I launch all 4 at the same time, they all launch quick and flawlessly.



    Any insight...?
  • Reply 4 of 7
    brianmacosbrianmacos Posts: 548member
    I think it is because they are all loading at the same time when I boot up OSX I have a 3 things in my Dock that I always load right away, IE, Mail, Yahoo Messenger it takes longer to load them all at that time then it does to do it one by one waiting for each to load.
  • Reply 5 of 7
    stimulistimuli Posts: 564member
    Yeah, that's due to 'context switching' in L2 cache/ processor as well as hard disk seeking/loading.



    Multitasking isn't faster (in fact it's usually slower) it's just that a multi-tasking system is more responsive to a human (to a point).



    [ 07-07-2002: Message edited by: stimuli ]</p>
  • Reply 6 of 7
    scott f.scott f. Posts: 276member
    [quote]Originally posted by stimuli:

    <strong>Yeah, that's due to 'context switching' in L2 cache/ processor as well as hard disk seeking/loading.



    Multitasking isn't faster (in fact it's usually slower) it's just that a multi-tasking system is more responsive to a human (to a point).



    [ 07-07-2002: Message edited by: stimuli ]</strong><hr></blockquote>



    It's not that I don't believe you... but why is it different if I select all 4 applications in the finder and hit "Open" in the menu (Which I've done)... they all open MUCH faster than on startup... yet they're still all loading at the "same time"... right?



    Am I missing something...?
  • Reply 7 of 7
    undotwaundotwa Posts: 97member
    I think Apple should return the Startup/Shutdown Items folder. Also a Put to Sleep/Wake From Sleep Items folder would be cool now that hardly anyone shuts down now.
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