Originally Posted by artie505
As you've suggested, DriveDx doesn't appear in any of the locations you've mentioned, but it does place an item in System Settings > General > Login Items > Allow in the Background when its "Launch at Login" pref box is checked.

Apparently merely installing the app does that. Autostarter is in there too.

Originally Posted by artie505
As an experiment, I added Mail, Safari Technology Preview, and Music to Autostarter, and they not only didn't launch in that precise order order, but the CPU activity involved in their "simultaneous" launch was such a drag on "getting going," that I deleted them and went back to individual hotkey launches. It's been many years - since either Jaguar or Panther - since I last tried that experiment, and my recent results are the same as I remember from back then.

I currently have ten LaunchAgents, twenty-six LaunchDaemons, ten Launch Items (Autostart) The startup time on my Studio is short enough that I don't really notice it, except my database system sometimes launches before the RAID array the files are on completes mounting.


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