how is "Microtek Scanner Finder" auto-opening?

System Preferences -> User -> Starting Objects (or whatever it's called in 
English, I'm on a German version)

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"Login Items"

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On Sun, 7 Dec 2008 16:35:49 -0600, Jolly Roger wrote
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well, I went there, and did not see any item relating to Microtek Scanner 
Finder. There is iTunes Helper and SpeechSynthesisServer, however.

This is not something froom logging in, it happens whenever the computer is 
started up. I hope I am saying things clearly. I never log out, I just shut 
down. 

tom koehler


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Library > StartupItems

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There are two items in Library>StartupItems.
They are "comapcpcpestart" and "Tablet"
I do not have a clue what the first item is, but the second refers to a Wacom 
tablet I have. No reference anywhere to a scanner.
tom koehler


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On Sun, 7 Dec 2008 19:53:34 -0600, tom koehler wrote
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answering myself, "comapcpcpestart" is for my backup power supply. Am still 
puzzling over the auto start of the scanner finder program.
tom koehler

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I believe the first one is part of APC PowerChute software, and stands 
for "com apc pc pe start".

Anyway, if it's not a startup item, it may be a launch daemon or agent. 
Check to se what you have in:

     /Library/LaunchAgents
     /Library/LaunchDaemons

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On Sun, 7 Dec 2008 20:35:10 -0600, Jolly Roger wrote
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well, doggone it, there's nothing in either of those two folders, either.
tom koehler

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On Sun, 7 Dec 2008 20:35:10 -0600, Jolly Roger wrote
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Thank you... I checked there, and both of those files are empty.
tom koehler

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On Mon, 8 Dec 2008 22:06:03 -0600, tom koehler wrote
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Oh, crap... I'm answering myself again, this time from the department of 
redundancy department.
sorry.
tom koehler


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Are you absolutely sure nothing is in System Preferences > Accounts > 
Login Items?:

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Hi Tom.

I don't have an answer to your question, but I can confirm that you
aren't crazy. Someone gave me a MicroTek scanner, and I observed the
same annoyance of it launching the Microtek Scanner Finder application
at login.

I was also unable to work out how it was doing this. It wasn't a login
item. In the end, I deleted the application when I decided the scanner
was a piece of junk, so the problem was resolved but without
understanding the mechanism.

I think I even examined its installer in an effort to work out what it
was installing which might cause this, and didn't spot anything obvious.

The only conclusion I could draw is that there is yet another mechanism
for launching applications which I don't know about.


All the .plist files ("property list") contain preferences for particlar
applications. They aren't responsible for anything like launching an
application - they are just read by the application after it has been
launched, to fetch preference choices made by the user (typically via
the "Preferences" command in the application menu), and are written by
the application when preferences are changed.

If you delete this file, the application will normally create it again
on next launch, containing default preferences.

The rest of the system doesn't pay attention to the .plist files, but
there are some developer tools for examining and editing them.

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