You likely have a number of apps that startup when you login to your Mac. Setting those up goes something like this: Right-click the icon when it’s in the macOS dock and click “Open at Login.”
Normally, if you want to close all of the open apps on your Mac, you'd have to either quit them all one by one or restart, shut down, or log out while making sure to deselect “Reopen windows when logging back in.' The latter option is great, but it doesn't always work in Mac OS X, and what if you don't want to restart, shut down, or log out? Spontaneously reopening apps at startup Apple If the checkbox is selected (as shown here) when you shut down or restart, whatever apps are open at that time will reopen automatically. Nov 03, 2016 This means that when you close a window, you close the application as well (as long as it’s the last window of that application that’s open). On a Mac, a window is treated more like a document than the app itself. When you close a window, you close the specific document you were looking at, but the application itself keeps running.
But now, you have all of these apps opening willy-nilly all over your Desktop. There’s a cleaner way to handle the apps that will be opening automatically at login.
How To Automatically Minimize Apps That Startup at Login on macOSMac Stop Applications Loading On Startup
1.) Click on the Apple logo () in the upper left-hand corner of your Mac’s Desktop. (As seen below.)
2.) Click “System Preferences…” in the menu that appears. (As seen above.)
3.) When System Preferences opens, click the “Users & Groups” icon. (As seen below.)
4.) Select your user profile, and then tick the “hide” box next to all the applications that you would like to be minimized when macOS starts up. (As seen below.)
Now, when macOS starts up, those apps will run, but they’ll minimized themselves to the dock upon launch. Now, when the apps open automatically at login, things will look much neater, and you won’t have to minimize a metric buttload of apps before you get down to work.
Mac Stop Apps Opening On Startup
For more tips and tricks on how to make better use of your Mac, iOS device, Apple Watch, or Apple TV, be sure to visit the “How To” section of our website.
Computers may sometimes behave like cats. They totally ignore you as if they have plans of their own. You will see apps popping up and mysterious processes starting in the background. Now your PC takes 5 minutes to load, what’s happening? Your computer probably has too many apps sitting in Autorun.
What Is Autorun?
Autorun is simply the list of apps that load automatically each time your computer starts. When the Autorun is overloaded you’ll sometimes see more and more icons appearing in the system tray (in the bottom right corner, where the clock is). The list could be long: Microsoft Office, media players, video drivers, Anti-viruses, software updaters and the like. They would often start their dialogue windows begging for your attention which is far from normal experience.
Why Are Autorun Apps a Problem?
According to MacPaw’s support statistics, adding 5 extra programs to Autorun slows down your boot time by 20 seconds. That’s because most of your applications come from different developers. It’s natural they are competing for PC memory, each trying to get its share of CPU resources — literally like snakes in a jar. They would add themselves to Autorun and busting them out is not easy. Some apps, though useful in theory, are extremely memory-hungry. For instance, game launchers like Steam or Origin eat up pretty much of your computer’s RAM. You may safely switch them off until the next time you need them.
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In a nutshell, apps that run upon Windows startup are all real apps. They demand memory and waste your CPU resources, and not all of them are necessary to you. The more apps in Autorun, the slower the performance of your PC. Further down, we will tell you how manually clean Autorun.
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