Wow, Microsoft's Windows 10 always runs Edge on startup? What could cause that? So strange, tut-tuts Microsoft
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- News link: https://www.theregister.co.uk/2020/06/15/microsoft_edge_windows/
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This comes after punters last week complained to Redmond's support gofers that they can't seem to stop Edge from running at boot.
"We've heard from our community that some versions of Microsoft Edge are automatically launching whenever users start their PCs and log into Windows regardless of their selection in Edge://settings/onStartup," [1]said a Microsoft project manager, known only as Fawkes, of the browser shenanigans, asking users to help it figure out the problem by submitting their log files.
"It’s currently unknown whether there are any accompanying behavioral changes with this bug."
It looks like you want to browse the internet with Chrome. Would you like help? Maybe try Edge? Please? [2]MORE LIKE THIS
You know, maybe someone on the Edge team could have a word with someone the Windows 10 team for help. Maybe over this thing called Teams. or Yammer. Or Outlook
[3]scratch that – ed.
. Just a thought. What do we know? On the other hand, Edge has recently adopted the Google-championed Chromium browser engine, so there may be some unforeseen compatibility issues to blame in some circumstances for this weirdness.Those who want to get to the bottom of this issue are invited to contribute their browser logs for inspection by Microsofties.
"To help our devs understand and address this as quickly as possible, we ask that you kindly share diagnostic data through our secure in-browser feedback tool," said Fawkes. "So, if you're familiar with your device’s command prompt, please run the following steps to create and submit additional log files."
Here are those instructions: Open the command prompt from an Admin account – Press the Windows key then type in “cmd” or 'command prompt' into the search. You’ll see a black window open.
Enable Logging – run these two commands (hint: the second is one line)
auditpol.exe /set /subcategory:"Process Creation" /failure:enable /success:enable
reg add HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\System\Audit /v ProcessCreationIncludeCmdLine_Enabled /t REG_DWORD /d 0x1 /f
Save all open files, Reboot your PC and log in
Create and Save the log file – Open Powershell as an admin and run the following command
Get-WinEvent -FilterHashTable @{LogName="Security"; ID="4688"} | fl c:\users\edgelogfile.txt
Open the feedback tool and attach the file c:\users\edgelogfile.txt
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[1] https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/articles/known-issue-microsoft-edge-launching-on-startup/m-p/1457853
[2] https://www.theregister.com/2020/06/15/microsoft_roundup/
[3] https://www.theregister.com/2020/06/15/outlook_down/
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IE??? Really??
Do you mean IE (Internet Explorer) or do you actually mean Edge?
Remember when...
...you just put links to things you want run at startup in the startup folder and the job was done? One nice simple location, nothing in the way. Easy to read. Easy to write. Easy to understand.
There was one simple way and problems like this didn't happen. Every step we have taken away from that simple model has made things worse.
See also /etc/rc.d
The old ways were better. They weren't pretty, but they were better.
Terminate
When I first got Win 10, I went to setting for edge, disabled all app permissions. It fired itself up once so I went back to settings and hit the terminate button, no problems since!
@Chris G - Re: Terminate
Noted! I can hardly wait to put it in practice on my systems.
Thanks for the tip!
It hasn't gone away you know
Standard Win10 Error
I thought this was just the normal Win10 error, where a random application you had open when you shutdown (not suspend) boots when you relaunch, mostly for me it's excel, occasionally powerpoint and once or twice Chrome (so it's not just ms apps), not using Edge I wouldn't be surprised if it did the same..
I have some Windows 2016 servers which constantly complain when I launch a browser other than IE. No matter how many times I tell Windows that I really do want to use the alternative browser as my default browser and not use IE, they just keep on nagging me.