Something running at startup, but what?!

[RDowson]

Hi

When I power up my MacBook Pro (running Lion) once the desktop appears theres a window that pops up and closes really quickly. So quickly that I can't see what it is so that I can try to stop it.

I've checked the Login Items list and theres nothing in that.

Anyone know of any logs that I can look at to see what it might be?

My machine still starts up and shuts down much, much slower under lion. Could this possibly be the reason? If not, does anyone have any ideas about that too?

Many thanks

 

[GGJstudios]

I've checked the Login Items list and theres nothing in that.

There are more places to check. Look at the first 3 items on this list:
Performance Tips For Mac OS X

 

[RDowson]

There are more places to check. Look at the first 3 items on this list:
Performance Tips For Mac OS X

Thanks.

Theres things that mention VirtualBox, Facebook and Steam amongst others.

Can these be deleted or should I leave them?

 

[GGJstudios]

Thanks.

Theres things that mention VirtualBox, Facebook and Steam amongst others.

Can these be deleted or should I leave them?

You can delete anything you don't want to automatically launch at startup. The less you have launching, the faster your startup will be.

 

[RDowson]

You can delete anything you don't want to automatically launch at startup. The less you have launching, the faster your startup will be.

Kool, so by deleting things in that folder, all I'm doing is preventing them from loading at startup?

It's not going to effect anything else?

 

[Michaelgtrusa]

Kool, so by deleting things in that folder, all I'm doing is preventing them from loading at startup?

It's not going to effect anything else?

No your ok.

 

[GGJstudios]

Kool, so by deleting things in that folder, all I'm doing is preventing them from loading at startup?

It's not going to effect anything else?

Correct.

 

[RDowson]

No your ok.

Thanks guys!