The reason why app prompt the old user account is because the app was installed by the old user, and the purchase/install history (App Store called it purchase even the app is free) was made by the old user. To solve this, you need to delete the app first (move to bin) than reinstall it again. Reinstall the app will update the app as well. To set Auto Login, display the Login Options settings and select the Automatically Log in As check box to enable it. Click the account name drop-down list box and choose the account that should automatically log in. When Mac OS X displays the user Name and Password sheet that you see in Figure 1, type the corresponding password and then click OK. See also: Slow Mac? To change your desktop background and thus your lock screen, Go to Apple menu System Preferences Desktop & Screen Saver. Also note that, as you probably know, your Mac has two screens: The lock screen and the log-in screen. This will change the login screen, the screen you type your password. Follow the steps below to stop Apps from opening at Startup on your Mac, in case the app that is opening up automatically is located on the Dock of your Mac. Right-click on the App’s icon that you wish to stop from opening at startup. After right clicking on the app’s icon, a menu will pop-up. From the menu, hover your mouse over Options and then click on Open at Login to uncheck this option. (See image below).
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 the window that opens, look for the Open With section. There will be a dropdown under it. Open the dropdown and select the app you want to set as the default app for that file type. Once you’ve selected the app, click ‘Change all’. You will get a prompt telling you that the default app will be changed for all files of that type.
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.)
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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.)
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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.
For more tips and tricks on how to make better use of your Mac, iOS device, Apple Watch, or Apple TV, be sure to visit the “How To” section of our website.