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Why is it that Mac OS X (Big Sur, but everything else too) on reboot, with the reopen windows option selected, opens absolutely everything? It's more than a little annoying now that I have to go and personally clean up everything, only to have it all come back again the next day. and the day after that, etc...
Mac Pro, macOS 11.0
Hi all,
thanks for the timely replies.
I'll try to cover all of the points here:
maybe I was not clear in the op. Simply put: with the "reopen windows" option checked, my system, on restart, is reopening many more applications than were open, when it was shut down.
Hi all,
thanks for the timely replies.
I'll try to cover all of the points here:
maybe I was not clear in the op. Simply put: with the "reopen windows" option checked, my system, on restart, is reopening many more applications than were open, when it was shut down.
If you select to re-open apps on restart, it opens all apps that are not actually quit.
Some apps quit memory on closing and some don’t. If you set the Dock to show apps in memory, you can see which ones are not quit and will re-open. If you want to quit these, do so using their contextual menu “quit” from the Dock.
I agree that all apps should quit memory when closed normally.
What is preventing you from deselecting the restart, shutdown, and logout dialog checkboxes to reopen windows when logging back in. You only need to do this just once for each. Then in the System Preferences : General panel, select Close windows when quitting an application, and then actually using the formal quit. Also, not all applications are written to quit the application when clicking the red close button on the document title bar.
" If you select to re-open apps on restart, it opens all apps that are not actually quit. " Good Point +1
Try going into System Preferences and User / Groups and choose your account. Check if somehow all these apps have been added to Startup. I doubt it but worth checking.
mac os opens everything on startup, not just the windows that were open during shutdown.
