Re: Does Mac OS X have a disable startup opiton like Windows' msconfig.exe?

From	Don Bruder <dakidd@sonic.net>
Newsgroups	comp.sys.mac.apps, comp.sys.mac.system
Subject	Re: Does Mac OS X have a disable startup opiton like Windows' msconfig.exe?
Date	2015-09-01 21:40 -0700
Organization	Chaotic Creations Unlimited
Message-ID	<ms5ugh$iam$2@dont-email.me> (permalink)
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In article <55e677b5$0$1690$742ec2ed@news.sonic.net>,
 Patty Winter <patty1@wintertime.com> wrote:

> In article <yt-dnS6KX7MKhnvInZ2dnUU7-SmdnZ2d@earthlink.com>,
> Ant <ANTant@zimage.com> wrote:
> 
> [previous attribution missing]
> 
> >> System Preferences > Users & Groups > Login Items. Remove one or a few
> >> or all. Restore one or a few or all.
> >
> >OK, but readding apps is a pain since they are deleted. Couldn't Mac OS 
> >X just temporarily disable them in the list? People have to write down 
> >what apps were on the list to readd later? 
> 
> No, you don't have to write them down. Just take a screen shot, as
> other people here have suggested.
> 
> 
> Patty

I detest the "make a screenshot" method - Try it this way:
Copy EVERYTHING in your login items folder to someplace else - For this 
post, I'll call it "nologin", but you can name it whatever you like. Now 
drag everything in your login items folder to the trash, empty the 
trash, so that you have nothing in the login items folder. Now start 
adding items back from nologin, using whatever method tickles your fancy 
to keep track of which ones have been put back - For stuff like this, I 
like to set a color label on the file. Restart. Problem gone? It wasn't 
caused by <whatever you just put back>. Leave it in the login items 
folder and copy something else from nologin back into the login items 
folder and restart again. Lather, rinse, repeat until problem returns. 
If it doesn't return, well, then you've got some more sleuthing to do, 
and I can't be much help.

If/when the problem returns, the last thing you copied back into the 
login items folder is PROBABLY (but !!!!not CERTAINLY!!!!) the culprit. 
Yank it out and restart. Did the problem go away? If so, you're done - 
that item is/was the problem. Ditch it, fix it, find a new copy of it, 
or figure out some other way to replace its functionality. Don't forget 
to put the rest of what got copied to nologin back into the login items 
folder.

-- 
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