How to remove startup and login items on your Mac<article>
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<p>When you turn on your Mac, various apps, add-ons, and invisible background processes start running all by themselves. This is usually what you want, but you may sometimes see items running that you don’t recall adding yourself. Where do they come from?</p><p>Because such items can increase your Mac’s startup time and may decrease its performance, you’ll want to make sure your Mac is loading only items that are useful to you. Here’s a quick primer on the various kinds of startup and login items and how to manage them.</p><h2 class="toc">Login items</h2>
<p>Open
System Preferences and click on
Users & Groups, then click the
Login Items tab. You'll see a list of apps (and even files and folders) that open every time you log in. This list is different for each user account on your Mac.</p><p class="jumpTag"><a href="/article/2047747/take-control-of-startup-and-login-items.html#jump">To read this article in full, please click here[/url]</p></section></article>
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How to remove startup and login items on your Mac
