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Turn off annoying window reopening in macosx after reboot (persistent)
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turn-off-window-reopening-macosx.sh
# create a clean reboot without the windows you don't want to have
# by rebooting your mac (uncheck the reopen windows checkbox in the reboot dialog
# take over this file
sudo chown root ~/Library/Preferences/ByHost/com.apple.loginwindow*
# and prevent further changes (checkbox in reboot dialog doesn't matter)
sudo chmod 000 ~/Library/Preferences/ByHost/com.apple.loginwindow*
# to undo it, simply delete the file. It will be recreated automatically
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