|
An app on a Mac that automatically launches on boot and I don't want it to. The app itself offers no way to prevent this. Rather than identify the app, I figured it would be nice to use this question as an opportunity to identify all the places such an app could hide. Here's where I've looked so far, and I still haven't found it:
Other ideas? | |||
feedback
|
|
There is a folder with the path: Macintosh HD/System/Library/StartupItems I haven't used it in about 7 years, but is it possible that some document associated with the mystery app is in there? The OS would start up the application in order to open the document. | |||
|
feedback
|
|
Don't forget to check System Preferences undre Accounts -> Your Login Account. You'll see a tab that says "Login Items" that lists apps that launch when you log into your machine. Also, from the console check the crontab (is that launchd in OS X? I think it might be...) as you may have entries in there auto-launching things. You need to sudo to check and edit it for other users. | |||
|
feedback
|
|
As well as what's been mentioned so far there are also login hooks for the loginwindow process. Also bootstrap daemons were introduced in OS X 10.3 but are now deprecated. But that doesn't mean it's not still being used if your application was built for 10.3 and never updated. http://developer.apple.com/mac/library/documentation/MacOSX/Conceptual/BPSystemStartup/BPSystemStartup.html goes into some detail on the various locations to launch applications from at boot. | |||
|
feedback
|
