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OSX Lion startup items?

  • 29-06-2012 8:32am
    #1
    milltown
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,618 ✭✭✭


    My year old MBP is taking quite a while to boot up these days. When I got it it seemed like 30 seconds from off to logon screen. These days it's a couple of minutes. In the early days I probably installed and deleted a load of stuff, trying to find software that did jobs I used to do in Windows. Maybe there's remnants of some of that stuff slowing down the boot up?
    I upped the RAM a few months ago with Crucial recommended sticks but there was no noticeable change to the boot at that point, for better or worse.
    I'm a Mac noob and I haven't found anything in settings or utilities that might tell me what programs/apps/services are starting at startup. Am I missing something? Or is there a tool available that could help with this?
    Anything else I should be looking at? Once it's up to the logon screen, it flies so I don't think it's hardware related.
    All help and advice is most welcome.


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  • #2
    MiniNukinfuts
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 951 ✭✭✭MiniNukinfuts


    You could put an SSD into your laptop and replace the HDD, this would help enormously with your speed issues. If you want to change the start up apps, go to settings, users & groups, then select your profile on the left, go to the logon items in the center of the window, and deselect the items you want loading at startup.


  • #3
    Sad Professor
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Arts Moderators, Entertainment Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 22,693 CMod ✭✭✭✭Sad Professor


    What stage of startup is slowest?

    Have you any perfomance issues once the machine is up and running? Are apps slow to launch?


  • #4
    brav
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 895 ✭✭✭brav


    Items loaded during startup are in:
    /Library/LaunchAgents/
    /Library/LaunchDaemons/
    /Library/startupitems/
    ~/Library/LaunchAgents/

    And also in System preferences>Users and Groups>Login Items


  • #5
    milltown
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,618 ✭✭✭milltown


    Hmmm.
    Either it's gotten better or I was imagining it. I just timed it there and it's less than a minute from cold to logon screen. Can't complain about that.

    SP, performance wise, it zips along when it's running. Probably the only time I see the beach ball is when iPhoto is opening up. Starting apps? Well if it's any indicator, most things seem to start after 2 - 4 bounces in the dock.

    Brav, thanks for that info. That's the sort of stuff I need to get my Mac chops near where my Windows chops once were.


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