[Ham-Mac] Lion Migration. Long..

[John L Merrill]

Dick:

When I installed Lion, that box was checked. I unchecked it and it has stayed that way ever since.


John N1JM


On Jul 31, 2011, at 12:05 PM, Dick Kriss wrote:

> John N1JM,
> 
> Please share what you had to do to get the Reset or Shut Down dialog box to remain unChecked!
> 
> Dick AA5VU
> 
> 
> On Jul 31, 2011, at 1:53 PM, John L Merrill wrote:
> 
>> Stays unchecked for me.
>> 
>> John N1JM
>> On Jul 31, 2011, at 11:42 AM, Dave Wright wrote:
>> 
>>> Agree on that lack of memory for that setting...it should be "sticky".
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> On Sun, Jul 31, 2011 at 2:38 PM, Dick Kriss <aa5vu at att.net> wrote:
>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> On Jul 31, 2011, at 12:57 PM, Dave Wright wrote:
>>>> 
>>>>> All I can say is that it works on my system. If I run text edit with that
>>>>> checked, it will reopen old files...unselect it and they do not reopen.
>>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> I have the System Preference/General "Restore windows when quitting and
>>>> re-opening apps" option unChecked.  I had Excel open to a worksheet, Adobe
>>>> Reader open to my DXCC Award Credits Listing, Mail and several
>>>> other apps open. I did a Restart without unchecking the Restart dialog box.
>>>> After the restart, all windows, apps and documents came up with
>>>> one exception. The Adobe Reader was active (on the dock) but did not open
>>>> the document. Unchecking the Restore user option only seems to apply to
>>>> open Apple documents and does not apply to apps.  When I use the Restart or
>>>> Shut Down, I want OS X to close everything for a Clean start with the
>>>> exception
>>>> of the Login items in my user setting.
>>>> 
>>>> The only way to get the Lion to give you what Apple calls a Clean start
>>>> under Resume at http://www.apple.com/macosx/whats-new/features.html
>>>> is to manually uncheck the "Reopen windows when logging back in" in the
>>>> dialog box and this has no memory. My issue with Lion is the lack of memory
>>>> on the check box.
>>>> 
>>>>> And during reboot/restart/log off, I make sure I unselect the "Reopen
>>>>> windows when logging back in" on the dialog to prevent all of the open
>>>>> programs from reopening themselves, thus giving a clean restart.
>>>> 
>>>> I agree but you have to remember to uncheck the box each time. It has
>>>> no memory.
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>> Dave
>>>>> 
>>>>> On Sun, Jul 31, 2011 at 1:51 PM, Dick Kriss <aa5vu at att.net> wrote:
>>>>> 
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> On Jul 31, 2011, at 12:14 PM, Dave Wright wrote:
>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>> On Sun, Jul 31, 2011 at 1:03 PM, Dick Kriss <aa5vu at att.net> wrote:
>>>>>>>> In my opinion, the Clean start option should have been a user
>>>> selection
>>>>>> in
>>>>>>>> the System
>>>>>>>> Preferences/General settings. Hopefully, Apple will address the Clean
>>>>>> start
>>>>>>>> option
>>>>>>>> user preference in one of the updates. Until then we have to uncheck
>>>> the
>>>>>>>> box on each
>>>>>>>> Restart or Shut Down.
>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> Dick, that IS an option in system preferences.
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> Go to System Preferences/General, remove the check mark next to
>>>> "Restore
>>>>>>> windows when quitting and reopening apps".
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> Dave,
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> That does not, repeat does not, work.  Unchecking this option was the
>>>> first
>>>>>> thing
>>>>>> several of us tried and it does not give you a Clean start. I think that
>>>>>> may have
>>>>>> been what they intended but the implementation does not work.
>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> This removes the application memory and each will start clean without
>>>>>>> opening all of the old windows/files/etc.
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> Using terminal commands to reset the value also did not work.
>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> This is a system-wide setting....it is all or nothing, but it works.
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> Dave
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> --
>>>>>>> Dave
>>>>>>> K3DCW
>>>>>>> www.k3dcw.net
>>>>>>> 
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>>> 
>>> 
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