![]() You can spend a few bucks for AppZapper that looks in the canonical places and finds files, or you can use Hazel, which, for $20, does AppZapper's job except automatically when you trash it, and has a lot of other utility besides.Or you can do it by hand. It's usually in one of the Application Support directories.Edit: and uninstalling is lame on a Mac. If you are curious where the binary file is that is getting run at login, look in the plist before you trash it and you should find the path. Library/LaunchAgents/Library/LaunchDaemons~/Library/LaunchAgents~/Library/LaunchDaemonsSys Prefs -> Account Prefs -> Login ItemsThese are the 5 places to look when you're looking for apps that start at startup.There are other archaic ways that are holdovers from Unix, but they are deprecated and some of them you have to have enabled yourself before they'll work. In OS X, installing is a breeze because it's just drag and drop, great, but if uninstalling means dragging the app to the Trash but keeping all the files it has spread all over my harddisk and I end up having tons of uninstallable startup items that eat away all my disk space and memory, I'd rather prefer the Windows way. I'm still too new to OS X to know all the relevant locations (just ask me where to look in Windows.).Of course there are good reasons to hate Windows installers and uninstallers, but at least there you have them. Searching ControllerMate with Spotlight also doesn't give me any results (probably because it's in a System folder). ![]() What are the standard locations in OS X where I can search for startup items? First place to look is of course SysPrefs > Users > Start Objects, but I can't find anything there. ![]() Activity Monitor shows me several processes running belonging to applications that I have removed immediately after testing and disliking them. ![]()
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