Chapter . Troubleshoot Startup and Login Items

I suggested creating an account for troubleshooting earlier, in Set up a troubleshooting account; now, here’s a brief explanation of how to use this account, and how to troubleshoot startup items and login items. If you notice a reproducible problem with your Mac, that is, a problem you can make happen again by doing certain things in a certain order, or if you experience a problem that happens quite often (even if you’re not sure why), you can test if startup items or login items are causing it. Here are the steps:

  1. Create a new administrator account (if you don’t already have one) for troubleshooting. This troubleshooting account should be a virgin account, with no additions, drivers, or extra software. ...

Get Take Control of Users & Accounts in Tiger now with the O’Reilly learning platform.

O’Reilly members experience books, live events, courses curated by job role, and more from O’Reilly and nearly 200 top publishers.