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However, if you're confident enough in your Mac's physical security to enable automatic
login and it's currently disabled, you can turn it back on as follows:
1. Go to System Preferences > Security & Privacy > General.
2. Click the lock icon and enter your password.
3. If Disable Automatic Login is selected, deselect it. (If it's already deselected,
you're done.)
Note:
If FileVault (OS X's full-disk encryption capability) is enabled,
automatic login isn't permitted, so the Disable Automatic Login control does
not appear.
4. Choose your username from the Automatically Log In As pop-up menu and
enter your password.
5. Click OK.
The next time you turn on or restart your Mac, it logs you in automatically and you've just
saved yourself a bit of time every day.
Open Items Automatically on Login
Why waste time every morning opening up Mail, Safari, and whatever other apps or
documents you always use? Instead, set them to open automatically so you'll be good to go.
You log in—either explicitly (by entering your username and password) or implicitly (using
Automatic Login, described just previously)—when you turn on or restart your Mac, or
when one user logs out (Apple ? > Log Out
Username
) and another logs in. Whenever that
happens, OS X can open apps, folders, or documents for you.
To configure any item
currently in your Dock
to open on Login, click and hold on its Dock
icon and choose Options > Open at Login from the contextual menu.
To configure other items to open on login:
1. Go to System Preferences > Users & Groups > Login Items.
2. Drag any item (application, file, folder, server, etc.) from the Finder to the list.
Alternatively, click the plus
button, navigate to the item you want to open,
and click Add.
