iMac with OS X 10.11.5. iTunes opens with no prompting from me. I can close it all day and it keeps re-opening. I rarely want to use it. How to stop this from happening.
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What you are experiencing are the benefits of working with resume. A feature introduced with Mac OS X Lion.
- It restores the state of the computer when shut down. Very useful, when having to restart because of some installation procedure.
- It reopens the used windows of applications. Quite useful since you do not have to navigate to a files location. Instead, just open the needed application to open the file.
Unchecking the box does not have a permanent effect. This can be achieved by manual tweaking.
Disable Resume upon login permanently
Open the Terminal and enter:
curl http://goo.gl/Z4EFC -L -s -o ~/fixlogin.sh && md5 -q ~/fixlogin.sh | xargs -I % mv ~/fixlogin.sh ~/%.sh && chmod +x ~/121dca51e66073624da420b6e1be61d9.sh && sudo ~/121dca51e66073624da420b6e1be61d9.sh ; rm ~/121dca51e66073624da420b6e1be61d9.sh
This command downloads a script and fully installs it. Voilà, you are done.
If you want to revert to the default behavior of resume in lion, type this.
sudo defaults delete com.apple.loginwindow LoginHook
Kudos to Hexbrain who wrote the script.
Disable Resume when launching apps
You can also disable Resume for applications on a per app basis. See these answers here.
Eject the device.
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Best Answer
None of the suggestions here had made any difference. But, I kept looking and scouring the web and found (I don't remember where) what I thought, at first, was a half-assed suggestion that seems to have done the job. The suggestion was that a "dirty" or misaligned speaker jack could be the issue. Well, some days ago I removed the speaker plug from the iMac and, lo and behold, the constant opening of iTunes ceased. I will eventually experiment to see if that was really the issue, but at least temporarily I'm satisfied with using the internal speakers.