[Eddie Hellion]

I'm a relatively new Mac user, so thanks in advance for your patience.

A command of CTRL+ALT+DEL on a PC will allow you to view and shutdown processes that are running in the background. Is there a way to do this on my new Powerbook?

Also, running MSCONFIG on a PC will bring up a list of programs that start up when I boot, as well as allow me to stop these programs from executing on boot up. Does anyone know how to do this on a Mac?

Thanks again.
Hellion.

[entrox]

Originally posted by Eddie Hellion:
A command of CTRL+ALT+DEL on a PC will allow you to view and shutdown processes that are running in the background. Is there a way to do this on my new Powerbook?

CMD-OPT-ESC

Also, running MSCONFIG on a PC will bring up a list of programs that start up when I boot, as well as allow me to stop these programs from executing on boot up. Does anyone know how to do this on a Mac?

System Preferences -> Accounts -> Startup Items

The other stuff gets started according to various preferences (e.g. the firewall rules will be set at boot-up when it is enabled).

[JKT]

To view all active processes you can:

1. Launch Activity Monitor (in Applications/Utilities) which will be more familiar to you as an equivalent of Task Viewer on Windows.

2. Use the Terminal (also Applications/Utilities) and use the CLI commands top and kill to view processes and stop them.

I don't know how to stop individual processes at boot time (I imagine it involves CLI magic when booting into open-firmware), but you can "safe" boot by holding the shift key down at system startup. This will prevent third-party "extensions" from loading and revert the system to Apple only ones. If you are already booted and want to login safely, you can also depress the shift key when you press the login button (after entering your username and password) - this will stop any items in the "System Preferences>Accounts>Startup Items" from loading.

[Maflynn]

Use the terminal and type top.

Mike

[Spheric Harlot]

If you want to launch certain applications at *login* (not startup), go into

System Preferences --> Accounts --> (your account).

You can set login applications there.

-s*

[Cipher13]

Since the question has already been answered, I'll throw this tidbit in:

If you're using PathFinder instead of the Finder, it has a shelf which lists running applications. You can also kill them from there.

[Eddie Hellion]

Great.
I appreciate all the replies. There's a book at the bookstore called "Mac OS X Hacks" that I think I'll pick up. I imagine it would have some useful stuff.

Thanks again.
Hellion

[SuperHard]

I didn't see it in a previous post but I find the quickest way to see whats running (and to switch between the apps) is cmd+tab.

[bergy]

Originally posted by SuperHard:
I didn't see it in a previous post but I find the quickest way to see whats running (and to switch between the apps) is cmd+tab.

That's really cool ... Thanks!

[Brass]

For programs that launch at login time (not startup) use the System Preference as somebody posted earlier.

If you really do mean startup time (unlikely), you can place items in /Library/StartupItems, or delete/rename them (creating the directory if it does not already exist), but using this feature requires a bit of extra knowedge of how such items should be created.