[X4U] Change order of Login items

Randy B.Singer randy at macattorney.com
Mon Feb 27 23:14:50 PST 2006


Crandon David said:

>I've got about 10 apps in my Longin Items tab in the Account  
>Preference Pane.
>
>The Help menu says I can change the order in which these apps launch  
>by simply dragging them to change their order.
>
>I can't seem to get it done!


As of Tiger it can't be done.  No one is exactly sure why you can't do it 
anymore, but it has been speculated that because login items now launch 
asynchronously in Tiger that there is no point in allowing the user to 
change their list order.



Randy B. Singer
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