Since there does not seem to be a “Quit” option with this darn software you can use the Activity Monitor utility on your Mac and kill the GlobalConnect program and it will not re-start. So now when you boot up your Mac the GlobalVPN software does not automatically start-up. plist files back into the LaunchAgents folder. 1 Or choose Force Quit from the Apple menu in the corner of your screen. (Note: If this does not work for you, you can always copy the backed up. Force an app to close Press these three keys together: Option (or Alt), Command, Esc (Escape). Do not change “KeepAlive” parameter, for some reason if I did that the software would not connect to the VPN anymore. 1 system does not stop or start the GlobalProtect client and it also does not break my GlobalProtect clients VPN connection to our Firewall. Change the “RunAtLoad” parameter from to plist file in a text-editor and make the following changes. Change both the “RunAtLoad” and “KeepAlive” parameters from to Ĥ. plist files in the Finder and make a backup by copying them to a different folder.ģ. Type “/Library/LaunchAgents” and press enter.Ģ. It is a huge annoyance that this software does not have a quit option, and an even bigger annoyance that if you force quit it the software just re-starts.Ĭ. This will also allow you to kill the VPN software after you are done using it. The following are the steps that I finally figured out to prevent GlobalProtect VPN from launching automatically on boot up of my Mac (Thanks to this post on Stack Exchange that pointed me in the right direction).

How to stop GlobalProtect VPN from auto-starting on the Mac

Force quit globalprotect mac