How to stop automatic opening of Words, Excel and browser at startup?

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  1. hajime, Feb 11, 2016

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    Hello, whenever I reboot my Mac, Words, Excel and sometimes also browsers are opened automatically during startup. How do I stop this from happening?

    I saw two solutions from other threads.

    1. I went to the dock and right click these application icons, in all cases, automatic open is unchecked.
    Failed

    2. Remove everything under Microsoft Office 2008->Office->Startup and Microsoft Office 2011->Office->Startup (I have both versions of Office installed.)
    Failed

    Thanks.
     
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  2. redAPPLE, Feb 11, 2016

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    check out system preferences > user & groups > login items

    clicking the checkbox of the applications you do not want to start up on login and then click the "-" (minus) symbol.

    OR

    maybe you leave the apps open when shutting down. you could stop this by unchecking the check box "reopen windows when logging back in".

    hope that helps.
     
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  3. hajime, Feb 12, 2016

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    Thanks. Under login items, I only have VMWare being listed.

    Where can I find the "unchecking the check box "reopen windows when logging back in""?
     
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  4. redAPPLE, Feb 12, 2016

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    clicking the apple menu (upper left) and choose "shut down" and the window should appear.
     
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  5. hajime, Feb 12, 2016

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    Thanks.

    After doing what you suggested, I rebooted the Mac. Microsoft apps did not launch automatically this time. However, when I clicked on FireFox on the dock, many browser windows showed up. Is there a way to stop that as well?
     
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  6. CreatorCode, Feb 12, 2016

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  7. JPJP, Jul 17, 2016

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    Hi redAPPLE,
    Your suggestion may work, but I want to reopen windows when I reboot (to return to recent browser activity for example). But even when I force quit the Microsoft applications before I shut down, they launch automatically. Like a bad rash...they are a real pain. Does anybody find it interesting that this is only with Microsoft? OK Adobe was the same way but I managed to off that one ;)
     
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  8. JohnDS, Jul 17, 2016
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    @JPJP: Why are you force quitting your Microsoft applications rather than choosing "Quit Word", for instance, from the Word menu?
    --- Post Merged, Jul 17, 2016 ---
    @hajime - Go to Preferences > General in Firefox and change "when Firefox starts" to something other than "Show my windows and tabs from last time."
     
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  9. aquariusX2, Oct 5, 2016

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    This is the only thing that worked for me. I lost track of who posted this. I am new and cannot find my way back. thanks to whoever it was.

    Always close applications with "command+Q" to prevent this from happening.;)
     
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