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Login Items: Which ones are useless ???
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Mar 5, 2008, 06:53 AM
 
In the System Preferences > Accounts tab.
When i click on Login Items I see the following:

1) iTunesHelper
2) AirPort Base Station Agent

What exactly are the iTunesHelper and AirPort Base Station Agent doing in there? I'm not running my computer via Wireless (although, sometimes i do connect via wireless to adjust the settings of my Extreme BaseStations). And iTunes doesn't launch automatically on login (and i don't want it to). I do have an iPhone and iPod that hook up to the computer on occasion.

My fear is that i get rid of them and then something doesn't work as it suppose to.

What do they do exactly and can i delete them?
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Mar 5, 2008, 07:00 AM
 
iTunesHelper is what launches iTunes when you connect your iPhone and iPod.

Googling "Airport Base Station Agent" finds this:
TidBITS Networking: AirPort Base Station Update Tweaks Admin Utilities
"AirPort Base Station Agent provides monitoring of base stations on the network."

Why do you have Airport Extreme Base Stations if you're not actually using Airport (=wireless LAN)?
Intriguing question, though not strictly relevant to what you're asking.

A rather more interesting exercise is to open Activitiy Viewer and see if they're actually using any resources at all as they sit idly in the background. Chances are, they'll suck up 0.0% of your CPU power, in which case:

They don't bother you, and there's no reason you should care. Leave them alone.
     
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Mar 6, 2008, 06:49 AM
 
My apartment has wireless via the base stations.
But my computer is hooked up via ethernet, so my wireless is rarely turned on.
I only turn it on if i want to configure the base stations.
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Mar 6, 2008, 12:07 PM
 
You still have Base Stations on your network that you're configuring, so it's probably fair enough to leave the process running.
     
   
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