Launching at Login
If you ever have a problem with items autolaunching at login and cannot disable them, the following information might help.
The following files are parsed when the system has finished booting and is autologging in or displaying the login screen.
All Users/Library/Preferences/loginwindow.plist
Current User~/Library/Preferences/loginwindow.plist
Property List Editor (from the developers tools) should be able to edit this in a GUI format, however an example of this file is listed below:
Remove the offending autolaunched application and enjoy faster, trouble free startups...
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple Computer//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" "http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd"> <plist version="1.0"> <dict> <key>AutoLaunchedApplicationDictionary</key> <array> <dict> <key>Hide</key> <false/> <key>Path</key> <string>/Applications/ScanWizard 5 Folder/Microtek Scanner Finder.app</string> </dict> </array> </dict> </plist>
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