Im not using Lion, im on 9.6.8 but I cant get the MBP to automatically open all my programs and windows each time I start up that I previously had opened. I know there is a window thats suppose to pop up when you reboot but I dont get that. I checked in sys pref and no option.
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How to turn on "automatically reopen all programs and windows" on every startup
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Go to System Preferences → General → uncheck 'Close all windows when quitting an application'.
Make sure that the apps remain open before you shut down your system.
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That's for each app them selves, not the whole system.
OP you don't have this checkbox when you do
> Shutdown?If you check the "reopen windows when logging back in" checkbox all the apps and windows will reopen on the next startup. The checkbox will remember if it was checked or not and it will stay the same as the last time you changed it, so if you want you always want to reopen apps/windows just check it once and it will stay that way.
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That's for each app them selves, not the whole system.
OP you don't have this checkbox when you do
If you check the "reopen windows when logging back in" checkbox all the apps and windows will reopen on the next startup. The checkbox will remember if it was checked or not and it will stay the same as the last time you changed it, so if you want you always want to reopen apps/windows just check it once and it will stay that way.
No im not given that option.
It was not there in Snow Leo. I reckon you're on 10.6.8 aka Snow Leopard. Haven't heard of anyone running System 9 on their Intel Macs
It's a joke, Mac OS 9 (classic) is a really old OS from ~ 1999.
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Your OS must be too old to have the feature.
Snow Leopard does not have that option.
You can only do so in Lion, Mountain Lion and Mavericks.
How do I upgrade? Cause i was almost certain i was on Lion, I paid the $20 a year ago to upgrade. How do I get this back? When I go to the App store, under purchases it shows i made the Lion upgrade purchase but i cant download it. Says its not available in the CDN store. What a joke, I paid $20 for this and now i cant get it? Then give me my money back Apple
I can only get Mavericks which I hate!!!! It has major issues for dual monitors running Display link (2nd on USB video card) and made the computer super laggy so I removed it last Dec. Until Apple fixes this, i wont be downloading it. Typical Apple, release betas that dont even work as advertised.
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I think if you hold option than click download it will force download the installer
When I tried to download Lion from the U.S. App store, it said that it wasn't available.