Here’s how to stop startup programs: Click the Apple menu in the top-left corner and select System Preferences. Then choose Users & Groups. Click the Login Items tab to see your list of startup programs. Choose a startup program to remove and click the minus button to clear it from the list. Like clearing the cache on Mac, or deleting your If application is set to run at startup, it will run (why not?). So you can save the application start time somewhere. And on the later run (for instance, user quit your application and run again) check if there is this parameter, and if it is later than system boot time, than application this time is not run automatically. 10. Go to file directory and then type. open -a "Microsoft PowerPoint" . Here "Microsoft PowerPoint" is the name of power point application, please check name of power point if it is different in your application directory. This is working perfectly fine on my MAC (OSX 10.8). Tap on three vertical dots in the top-right corner and select Settings. Go to Site settings > Pop-ups and redirects. Turn off the toggle next to Pop-ups and redirects. Close. 2. Change Search Settings in Chrome. You can prevent Chrome from opening unwanted websites at the same time by tweaking search settings. The batch file will check if your ClickOnce app is installed (by seeing if the appref-ms file exists) and launch it if so. Otherwise, the batch file deletes itself, via a method outlined here. Now that you have the batch file, test it out. Drop it in your Startup folder to make sure it launches your app on login. Step 2. We have resolved the auto-open of Mail app, which apparently was the result of HP Printer software, which doesn't play well with Mac OS Ventura 13.1. However, that solution has led to a couple of other undesired results from both HP and another unused legacy application (Spotify), which has been uninstalled, but left behind a variety of Mail app opens automatically at startup. For the past few weeks, the apple Mail program has been opening automatically upon starting my computer or login. I've never set this as a preference and have not found anywhere to turn it off in either the Mail or system preferences. I have also checked startup items and it is not listed there, either. Follow the steps below to disable Edge resources at startup. Step 1: Press the Windows key and open the start menu. Step 2: Search for gpedit.msc and hit Enter to open the Group Policy Editor menu You have two choices. You can choose that your applications not resume their previous state when you shutdown or restart the Mac by deselecting the checkbox that appears prior to shutdown: Or you can navigate to the General pane in System Preferences and deselect the Restore windows when quitting and re-opening apps option. Switch to the Triggers tab, and click the New option. Click the drop-down icon next to Begin the task and choose At startup. Then, click OK. Now, switch to the Action tab and click the New option. Paste the app's location in the Program/script section and click OK. 5. Add Apps to Startup Using the Startup Folder. 9M3tO51.