But there's an easier way! Simply open a terminal window and type in this command at the prompt, and press Return:
defaults read loginwindow | grep Path
The Terminal will display a list of all the paths to all your Login Items. Simply copy and paste the list in to a word processor, and save it where convenient for later reference. The output will look something like this (varying based on what you have installed, obviously):
$ defaults read loginwindow | grep Path
Path = "/System/Library/CoreServices/System\ Events.app";
Path = "/Applications/Utilities/PandoCalendarU0192/PandoCalendar.app";
Path = "/Applications/Utilities/StuffIt Deluxe9.0/MagicMenu.app";
...
The above tip is courtesy of Fred Moore and Doc O'Leary, who sent it to me via email. I've often wondered why OS X didn't give you an easy way to disable individual login items -- holding Shift at login will disable all of them, but there's no selective control. While this tip won't provide that, it at least will give you an easy way to reinstall any that you manually remove. To create your list in a one-step operation, use this variation of the above command:
$ defaults read loginwindow | grep Path > ~/Desktop/login_items.txt
This won't generate any onscreen output, but will dump the output directly into a text file (named login_items.txt in this example) on your Desktop.

