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Manage apps that automatically open when you log into your Mac
Unfortunately, there are other places that software launched at startup is embedded. It's almost as bad as Windows Registry.
Apple's own launch agents and daemons are in :
/System//Library/LaunchAgents
/System/Library/LaunchDaemons
You'll also find 3rd party system wide startup items in
/Library/LaunchAgents
/Library/LaunchDaemons
That DO NOT appear and cannot be controlled or listed as described in this note. I've had to purge items from those locations too many times—such as MalwareBytes Mac which continued to launch services and a menubar applet despite not having any active services running (I was out of the trial period on the free monitoring).
And user specific ones are held in
/Users/<username>/LaunchAgents
where <username> is the user's home directory. When trying to remove things that launch at startup or login, you'll need to look first as described in the article and then backwards through the lists here. And possibly also when removing software you no longer use.
