How do I stop Edge from automatically opening on start up? Windows 10 Pro 64 20H2

Anonymous
2020-11-12T00:43:35+00:00

Edge is opening EVERY TIME I REBOOT!

Insidiously it is absent from all STARTUP control systems so we CAN'T STOP it.

Does congressional investigations of unfair trade practices do nothing?

How can microsoft be so trumpianly abusive?

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Anonymous
2022-01-13T23:24:24+00:00

Hello, 

Edge version 97.0.1072.62 contains the fix and will be installed per your regular update policies over the next day or so. If you'd like to force the update immediately, you can head over to edge://settings/help in the address bar or Settings > About Microsoft Edge and trigger the update manually.

If you've made any registry edits or GPO changes as mitigation, you can revert those after the update!

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  1. Anonymous
    2022-01-06T00:30:30+00:00

    Back on topic, there is a tool from SysInternals (now in Microsoft) called "Autoruns".

    You have to be careful what to disable naturally but there are a lot of older software apps that may be calling something that causes Edge to load at start up / log in.

    I even found this article 2 Ways to Stop Microsoft Edge From Loading at Startup on Windows (partitionwizard.com) & going into GPO's still didn't work.

    There is no reason that this should be occurring & to stop it should be straight forward.

    I suggest EVERYONE who lands here goes to this article

    Stop Microsoft Edge from starting automatically

    Tell them is is NOT helpful & submit & give them an earful for them to finally address this responsibly.

    They have taken what has been a relatively strong & stable browser & are step by step making it unusable again.

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  2. Drew - 810 Reputation points
    2022-01-02T03:26:13+00:00

    People are free to be anti-Edge, though it escapes me why anyone would be 😕; bit like looking a gift-horse in the mouth❗But aside from that, it came to my Inbox from this thread someone suggesting/recommending using Internet Explorer, instead 👎👎

    Using defunct Internet Explorer should never, ever be suggested or (worse) recommended. DO NOT even give a thought to IE❗

    It was, also, said to install & use Adobe Reader for PDFs, instead of Edge... NOT NECESSARY❗ The OS comes with a built-in PDF Reader and PDFs can be open via other ways than in Edge, BUT there is no longer any need or reason to put a 3rd Party PDF reader in Windows (10 or 11).

    Cheers,
    Drew![Image](https://learn-attachment.microsoft.com/api/attachments/2111844a-4c19-4aba-8f16-b89283cc54c9?platform=QnA![Image](https://learn-attachment.microsoft.com/api/attachments/4a89b09e-4a3c-4cc1-a1c1-2aeff3539c4f?platform=QnA

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  3. Anonymous
    2021-12-31T22:22:57+00:00

    That doesn't help

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  4. Anonymous
    2021-12-31T19:13:27+00:00

    Feel like this is much simpler solution:

    Go to start up apps.

    Turn off Microsoft Edge

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