Login Items

Hey there guys ! Ever wanted that torrent application or your favorite IM client to start up automatically when you login ? I've got it covered in this post !

You can enable an application to start up automatically, at login, by doing this:

Alternate Click on Dock Icon // Select "Open at Login"

That will make the application open up, and sit on your Desktop, on its own, each time you login to your Mac. Furthermore, you can choose to hide the application, and choose to let it not-be-visible when you login, by doing this:

System Preferences // Accounts // "Login Items" Tab // Tick "Hide" (On the App you want to hide)

As you can see in the Screenshot above, I choose to run my Torrent application, uTorrent at login and hide it, cos I usually queue up some torrents, and I fear the power going kaput or the computer restarting for some reason and ending my torrent queue, after the re-login ! Neat huh ?