![]() ![]() You can just delete any items you don't want running (although use discretion, as you don't want to break anything). While writing this tutorial, I found a couple of things in there that were ancient that I didn't want any more. The first “hidden” place to look is in ~/Library/LaunchAgents. ![]() Deleting this won't usually get you anywhere, as anything in there can just be removed from System Preferences. There's even a /System/Library folder, which is the really low-level system Library.įirst, it may be helpful to know where the items in that System Preferences panel are stored: ~/Library/Preferences/ist. So, for example, there is a ~/Library folder, which is the Library folder in your User folder, and there is a /Library folder, which is the system level Library folder. If the ~ is in front, that means this is in your user folder (the one that shows up with a little house in the Finder sidebar) and if it doesn't have a ~ in front than the path starts from the root level of your hard drive. I'll give you file paths in the format of either ~/path/to/folder or /path/to/folder. This is a little guide to help you find what is making those processes run and kill them.įirst, for those of you who may not be as familiar with Mac/Unix conventions, I'll explain how I'll be referring to these. You may then go to the obvious place where startup items are added: System Preferences > Users > Your User > Login Items, and you discover that they aren't there. Sometimes when you notice your Mac is acting funky you may look in Console or Activity Monitor, and notice traces of applications running in the background that you thought were long since dead.
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