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<blockquote data-quote="Brown Study" data-source="post: 380755" data-attributes="member: 3889">Tajota, I had assumed you had meant the log-in items until I read giulio' post, because until OS X, log-in items were called startup items, and because what are now called the startup items are off-limits to mere mortals.Apple has isolated the system folder — or has tried to — from accidental deletions, additions and modifications, so the Mac's foundations can't be damaged by inexpert and unskilled users and by the type of internet malware that's the bane of the Windows world.If you open one of the folders inside the System's Library folder to see the icons inside, then hide the toolbar on the left by clicking the button on the top right of the window, you'll see a read-only icon at the top left of the window — a pencil with a line through it.You'd have to defeat the safeguards to change any of those files, and you might damage the system.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Brown Study, post: 380755, member: 3889"] Tajota, I had assumed you had meant the log-in items until I read giulio' post, because until OS X, log-in items were called startup items, and because what are now called the startup items are off-limits to mere mortals. Apple has isolated the system folder — or has tried to — from accidental deletions, additions and modifications, so the Mac's foundations can't be damaged by inexpert and unskilled users and by the type of internet malware that's the bane of the Windows world. If you open one of the folders inside the System's Library folder to see the icons inside, then hide the toolbar on the left by clicking the button on the top right of the window, you'll see a read-only icon at the top left of the window — a pencil with a line through it. You'd have to defeat the safeguards to change any of those files, and you might damage the system. [/QUOTE]

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