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You likely have a number of apps that startup when you login to your Mac. Setting those up goes something like this: Right-click the icon when it’s in the macOS dock and click “Open at Login.”
In Windows 8.1 Update 1, Microsoft made some changes to make the OS friendlier for keyboard/mouse users. Modern apps now have a title bar. You can make that titlebar visible by moving your mouse pointer to the top edge of the screen. We also showed you how to make the title bar show using a. Feb 01, 2017 How to hide Mac windows. To hide the active app, invoke the Command (⌘)-H shortcut on the keyboard or choose the Hide option from the app’s menu. To hide the windows of all open apps sans the active one, use the keyboard shortcut Option (⌥)-Command (⌘)-H or select the Hide Others option from the app’s menu.
But now, you have all of these apps opening willy-nilly all over your Desktop. There’s a cleaner way to handle the apps that will be opening automatically at login.
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How To Automatically Minimize Apps That Startup at Login on macOS
1.) Click on the Apple logo () in the upper left-hand corner of your Mac’s Desktop. (As seen below.)
2.) Click “System Preferences…” in the menu that appears. (As seen above.)
3.) When System Preferences opens, click the “Users & Groups” icon. (As seen below.)
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4.) Select your user profile, and then tick the “hide” box next to all the applications that you would like to be minimized when macOS starts up. (As seen below.)
Now, when macOS starts up, those apps will run, but they’ll minimized themselves to the dock upon launch. Now, when the apps open automatically at login, things will look much neater, and you won’t have to minimize a metric buttload of apps before you get down to work.
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