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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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Someone created a recent discussion thread on the r/MicrosoftEdge subreddit reporting the same bug:
https://www.reddit.com/r/MicrosoftEdge/comments/17hnscf/edge_keeps_running_in_the_background/
Please, we need updates from Microsoft on the issue, and a fix is required ASAP.
No. KB5031455 makes no difference for me. I don't have Copilot available (EU). MS Edge keeps running in the background.
Easy way: Create a new shortcut on the desktop, paste taskkill.exe /F /IM msedge.exe /T , name it. That's it. You can pin it to taskbar if you wish. Now simply click on it to kill all Edge processes running in the background. Shame Microsoft is making us finding workarounds for their bugs.
Hi, I ran Windows Update with even the optional updates, but Edge is still running in the background after it's been closed for a couple of hours.
Either a previous update broke Edge's options to not run in the background, or something is depending on it to run and keeps it open, but so far all I can do is end the task in task manager and hope it won't open itself again sometime later.
No. KB5031455 makes no difference. Checked on two laptops. And I don't even have Copilot avail (EU). Edge keeps running in the background and draining the battery.