Fair enough, but they need to refine the Login Items "Allow in the Background" list to give more information to enable the poor user to decide which items need to be enabled and which don't. All of the shell commands which are listed should probably be excluded from the list?
Also there is a confusion between the "Open at Login" list and the "Allow in Background" list - both seem to pretty much do the same thing but one is presumably under direct control of the user (the first) and the second is set by the process, but now the user has the theoretical ability to override what the process wants to do. But some, such as in my case Dropbox, appear in both. Giving power to the user is a Good Thing, with the mild caveat that it needs to be clear how and when to wield that power, and what effect it will have.
In all cases it seems to me that at least you should be able to click on a little "i" to see where the original file is located, like with the shell commands. An example here is that I have three entries for CleanMyMac X, and I have no way of knowing whether some of these are hangovers from previous versions, or are all of them valid?
Maybe this is a job for CleanMyMac itself to sort out!
If I may, I don't think " clean my mac " is necessary at all.... i think it will add unnecessary bloat to your system.
All the tools it has are either already available in the operating system or have friendlier, less 'bloaty' alternatives.
An oft-asked question by many Mac users is “How do I clean my Mac’s system?” The advice they frequently receive involves things like deleting log files, clearing caches, removing cookies and all manner of other things. There are dozens of utilities that help users do these tasks. So, which...
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I think Open at Login is different to Allow in Background, as the former is the classical functionality of having an application open as you start the computer, while the latter is actually information that was previously hidden, and could only be viewed with things like LaunchControl, mentioned earlier in the thread.
I appreciate having access to both, as now when I install a new app the system will notify me that that app intends to run stuff in the background, like an update checker for example, and I can individually choose to ignore it or turn it off.
Really suits me and how I use the computer, but maybe different for you
