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Disable OS X Lion's Resume Checkbox On Shutdown
Mar 11, 2025
An hand tip to disable the reusme checkbox in Lion.
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hey everyone today I've got a little tip
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for you about Mac OS 10 line now if you
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have used line for any amount of time
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you'll know that when you go to the
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Apple logo menu and click shut down or
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something like that it gives you this
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little dialog box and it says reopen
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Windows when logging back in there's a
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little check boox now personally I don't
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like that check box at all um I'm not a
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huge fan of the new resume feature in
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line so I end up always unchecking it
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before I click shut down I find this a
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little bit annoying but there's a way
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that you can make this check boox
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completely useless um it'll still show
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up so when you go to shut down it'll
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still show up but no matter what you do
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if you leave it checked or unchecked
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it's not going to do anything so to make
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this work you're going to have to go
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into terminal so the easiest way to find
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terminal is just to click on Spotlight
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up in the top and type in
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terminal and you can click on a terminal
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and from here you're going to see your
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little window and you're going to have
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to paste a line of code into here now
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rather than saying the code or
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displaying it on the screen uh it's
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pretty much useless to do because it's a
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very long uh string of text what I'm
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going to do is I'm just going to have it
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listed right below the video so here it
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is right here you can see it's a very
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long string and uh I'm just going to
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copy this string and I'm going to paste
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it right here and I'm going to hit hit
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enter and it's going to ask you for your
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password and I'm just going to f in my
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little password you're not going to see
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any characters or anything and now it's
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going to look like nothing happened but
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what it actually did is it downloaded a
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little script and it ran the script
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basically disabling that resume checkbox
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so I'm going to close everything up here
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and I'm going to set up a little test
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scenario I'm going to open up Safari I'm
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going to open up a whole bunch of new
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tabs here and these are all going to be
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open and I'll open up system preferences
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maybe and a finder
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window and let's try something like
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image capture and QuickTime
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Player and maybe texted it again we're
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going to have all this stuff open and
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now what I'm going to do is I'm going to
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shut down the mac and I'm going to leave
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the reopen Windows when logging in
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checkbox
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enabled and we're going to restart it
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and see what happens
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so you can see here now that the only
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thing that seemed to resume on Startup
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was the finder window so so it's a
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little bit interesting that that did
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actually resume but you can see none of
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the other stuff I had opened like Safari
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and image capture quick time player none
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of that stuff is open now so you can see
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that the script did work now the nice
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thing about this script is that you can
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dis dis aable it as well so if I go back
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in the terminal and I take this other
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line of code here which I'll also have
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right below the video and I copy this
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and I paste it right into terminal what
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it's going to do is it's going to
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reverse the script that I just put in
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it's going to ask me for my password
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once again and it looks like nothing
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happened but you'll see that everything
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will resume once again after you shut
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down and restart so there you go that's
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an easy way to disable the resume check
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box on the shutdown screen on your Mac
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and as always if you have anything that
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you'd like to see me do a how-to on make
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sure to send me an email I hope you
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found this video useful and thank you
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for watching
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