STARTUP ITEMS

If anyone had intimated I would be touting startup items as a significant new and improved feature of macOS, I would have laughed at the idea, but that was then and this is Ventura. The fact that System Preferences in Ventura is now System > Settings with a very iOS-like look & feel is well known, but this morning I ran into a new feature in System > Settings that could be a troubleshooting game-changer. Startup Items has been moved from the Users & Groups pane to General pretty much intact. The important change is a new section, Allow in the Background has been added including all the various LaunchAgents and LaunchDaemons along with toggle switches to turn each of them on or off! This opens a new troubleshooting dimension in Ventura, and I immediately found it useful. NOTE: I submitted a suggestion to add the toggle switches to the Login items.


"All you've got to do is own up to your ignorance
honestly, and you'll find people who are eager to
fill your head with information"
--Walt Disney