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As the title says, I was wondering why Edge is running in the background after Windows Update installed and I disabled Copilot from the taskbar. Edge's settings right now are like this:
Sidebar: disabled
Show Bing chat on sidebar: disabled
Startup Boos: disabled
Continue running background extensions and apps when Microsoft Edge is closed: disabled
And now I found this running in the background with the browser closed:
That's not even the browser's updater service. I stopped the task and it opened itself again a few minutes later.
As if the fake widgets I don't like or use are always running in the background despite many things I've tried, now I have Edge using system resources for no apparent reason.
Please help me find a solution to this problem.
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Found this on Reddit and it works for me. Disabling "Use hardware acceleration when available"
Upon edit, 10 min later... Disregard. DON'T DO THIS. Your CPU will take a massive hit.
I have ALL updates (it's Nov 16 now) and the issue still persists!!!
What about disabling it here? Does it make any difference?
Any of that makes no difference, mate. This is a shameful issue that needs to be acknowledged and fixed soon. It should be a top priority for MS Edge (Chromium), Windows OS devs, or both communicating with each other about this bug.
I tried it, but it didn't solve this persistent and bothersome "fancy" feature or misbehavior.
Irony off - Having to enable and use Windows development features to work around this bug -if it's a feature, they should remove "Continue running Background Processes" in Edge/ Settings/ System and Performance- is ridiculous and shameful.
MS has been ignoring user reports on the issue since October 2023.
For the love of god, Microsoft, fix this mess.
Edge doesnt appear in my start up settings at all
I am getting a bit tired of this stuff running in the background that I do not use and apparently does this by default. First it was Edge browser which I never use, but noticed one day in Task Manager several threads of Edge running. So I disabled that because task manager actually indicated High resource use. If what I read is true Copilot is another mess that tries to add itself to the startup apps.