Add or Remove Start-up Applications on Mac OS X

Some time people use their Mac computer for specific purpose and they want some required applications to run and ready at start-up automatically or even you don’t use Mac for specific work you may need to run some programs on start-up like Mail, Chat, Music and more… so Mac OS X gives you an option to specify applications to run at start-up.

Let’s see how to add or delete applications/programs from Mac OS X start-up.

Step-1

Click on Apple icon and click on System Preferences


Step-2

Click on Accounts icon under System category

Step-3

Click on Login Items tab and then Click the Add (+) button.

Step-4

Click on Applications under Places category then select application (e.g. Mail) of your choice from the list and Click on Add (+) button. Now when you restart your Mac then you will see the startup changes that you have made.

Delete start-up application on Mac

Simply after step-3 select the application under Login Items that you want to delete and Click on Delete (-) button

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Comments:

  1. Anthoni 1 February 2010 at 2:08 pm #

    Your method of guidance is too much effective

  2. Erica 2 February 2010 at 8:52 am #

    Really nice Mac tip thanks

  3. Nono 3 February 2010 at 6:14 am #

    Very nice mac os tip for those who always works with some specific applications and this tip really helps them to save time.

  4. Orex 17 February 2010 at 8:36 am #

    nice post. thanks.

  5. mv 19 February 2010 at 12:37 pm #

    Thanks for helping to add some programs on mac startup

  6. Helen 20 February 2010 at 3:41 am #

    this is really useful mac tip.

  7. JK 21 February 2010 at 3:40 am #

    Thanks.


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