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Mac restarts if I touch parasite startup items
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<blockquote data-quote="Slydude" data-source="post: 1292427" data-attributes="member: 131855"><p>Don't have much of an answer as far as number 1 is concerned yet. It is not one I am familiar with. </p><p></p><p>As far as the second point is concerned that I might be able to shed some light on. There are some legitimate things that, although you did not install them directly, get installed as part of something else. I have something like that with a piece of software called "Better Touch Tool". It installed something in my login items that I did not specifically install but it is a necessary part of the software. That is apparently what happened with the Microsoft extensions you listed. I suspect there is some Office feature that depends upon these items. </p><p></p><p>If it comes from a program you remember installing such as one of the Office components I wouldn't worry about it being identified as unknown.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Slydude, post: 1292427, member: 131855"] Don't have much of an answer as far as number 1 is concerned yet. It is not one I am familiar with. As far as the second point is concerned that I might be able to shed some light on. There are some legitimate things that, although you did not install them directly, get installed as part of something else. I have something like that with a piece of software called "Better Touch Tool". It installed something in my login items that I did not specifically install but it is a necessary part of the software. That is apparently what happened with the Microsoft extensions you listed. I suspect there is some Office feature that depends upon these items. If it comes from a program you remember installing such as one of the Office components I wouldn't worry about it being identified as unknown. [/QUOTE]
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