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Back in the day, all you had to do was move your app into the system folder and rename it Finder. It's good to see Apple's improved some things over time.

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Ran, renaming files "Finder"? No. You put aliases in the startup items folder.]]>Dec 19th 2005 2:26AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2004/07/20/how-to-make-programs-automatically-start-up-in-mac-os-x/http://www.engadget.com/2004/07/20/how-to-make-programs-automatically-start-up-in-mac-os-x/Dec 19th 2005 2:26AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2004/07/20/how-to-make-programs-automatically-start-up-in-mac-os-x/http://www.engadget.com/2004/07/20/how-to-make-programs-automatically-start-up-in-mac-os-x/Dec 19th 2005 2:26AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2004/07/20/how-to-make-programs-automatically-start-up-in-mac-os-x/http://www.engadget.com/2004/07/20/how-to-make-programs-automatically-start-up-in-mac-os-x/
Also i suspect that some type and creator code tweaking might be required if you wanted to create a properly blessed (non multifinder) system folder containing a program you wished to run as the finder... but it has been a long time since I have messed around wih this stuff :-)]]>Dec 19th 2005 2:26AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2004/07/20/how-to-make-programs-automatically-start-up-in-mac-os-x/http://www.engadget.com/2004/07/20/how-to-make-programs-automatically-start-up-in-mac-os-x/Dec 19th 2005 2:26AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2004/07/20/how-to-make-programs-automatically-start-up-in-mac-os-x/http://www.engadget.com/2004/07/20/how-to-make-programs-automatically-start-up-in-mac-os-x/
Is there any programs like Absolute StartUp manager ( http://www.absolutestartup.com )
in Mac OS?]]>Dec 19th 2005 2:26AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2004/07/20/how-to-make-programs-automatically-start-up-in-mac-os-x/http://www.engadget.com/2004/07/20/how-to-make-programs-automatically-start-up-in-mac-os-x/
Thx for any input
Val]]>Dec 19th 2005 2:26AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2004/07/20/how-to-make-programs-automatically-start-up-in-mac-os-x/http://www.engadget.com/2004/07/20/how-to-make-programs-automatically-start-up-in-mac-os-x/Dec 19th 2005 2:26AM