I work about 80% with Macs. Only when I’m not in the home office, in my studio and when tinkering with electronics in the workshop, I still have a PC with Windows in front of me.
However, what had been annoying me for a long time was the apparently non-switchable behavior of my Macs to reopen all previously opened programs on restart. The checkbox in the shutdown and restart dialog was not checked and yet the programs reopened on restart.
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You also can’t get any further with the settings of the login items under General in the System Settings.
Ultimately, two commands that I found in the depths of the internet provided a solution. Simply open a terminal and first enter this command:
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This assigns the list of programs that would be reopened on startup to the user Root, whereby macOS can no longer overwrite or replace them.
This command follows:
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with which all permissions are revoked. This means the list with the autostart programs can no longer be read or opened.
With this, the Mac will never again restart the last opened programs, regardless of whether the checkbox in the logout dialog is checked or not.
If you want to undo these settings, simply enter this command in the terminal:
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With this, the Mac recreates the list. For some, this command was also sufficient for the checkbox in the logout dialog to be taken into account again - unfortunately not for me. But I prefer to start the apps manually, so I’m happy to do without it.
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