Edge keeps running in the Background

Anonymous
2023-10-23T13:57:28+00:00

Hi All,

I know ... this is old and usually easy ... turn off "Startup Boost" and "Continue running background apps ..."

I have those off and it always worked they way it supposed to.

All of a sudden Edge keeps running.

Indication for still running comes from Ccleaner, which removes all trackers. All of a sudden I get the message:

(paraphrased) Ccleaner can't clean because Edge is still running ... needs to be forced shut down"

In Task manager I also still see 11 Edge processes going even though Edge is shut off.

Again ... "Startup Boost" and "Background Apps ..." are unchecked in settings.

Any suggestions?

I repaired Edge already and nothing changed. Its updated.

PS: I checked in another machine (Win10), same Edge version ... no problems here ... all Edge processes in Task Manager disappear

when shutting Edge down.

Thanks

Microsoft Edge | Other | Windows 11

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  1. Anonymous
    2024-08-25T12:53:32+00:00

    @echo off
    pushd "%~dp0"
    dir /b C:\Windows\servicing\Packages\Microsoft-Windows-GroupPolicy-ClientExtensions-Package~3*.mum >List.txt
    dir /b C:\Windows\servicing\Packages\Microsoft-Windows-GroupPolicy-ClientTools-Package~3*.mum >>List.txt

    for /f %%i in ('findstr /i . List.txt 2^>nul') do dism /online /norestart /add-package:"C:\Windows\servicing\Packages%%i"
    pause

    You can also convert Home edition to Pro for group policies

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  2. Anonymous
    2024-08-17T13:20:54+00:00

    All my browsers do it in win11. Have to go into task manager and hit END TASK.

    They are spying on you. It's called Data mining.

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  3. Anonymous
    2024-06-30T22:52:02+00:00

    Right click on your taskbar then click on taskbar settings and you can disable it there.

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  4. Anonymous
    2024-06-30T19:47:21+00:00

    How do I disable Co-Pilot?

    Was there ever a final consensus to this bug without reading 15 pages?

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  5. Anonymous
    2024-06-24T21:10:27+00:00

    Thank you for the response Bob5469. I appreciate any feedback or alternate approaches to any Windows issues as I have been a Windows user since Windows 7 and still have my Windows 11 machine setup as I had my Windows 7 machine setup, for the most part that is!

    I would also like to point out that my issue has been ongoing since I bought my copy of windows 11 which was way before CoPilot existed. The registry key that I made simply did not exist inside the registry and after I made the key all was working perfectly.

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