Question New Windows update makes Edge launch at startup.

[VirtualLarry]

Windows bug: Check if Edge is silently running in the background (msn.com)

Moar bloat, please, MS.

What about those laptops sold all throughout 2020-2021, with only 4GB of RAM (and some is taken by IGPU)?

 

[LiluDallas]

Windows bug: Check if Edge is silently running in the background (msn.com)

Moar bloat, please, MS.

What about those laptops sold all throughout 2020-2021, with only 4GB of RAM (and some is taken by IGPU)?

Thank's for the tip. 4 Gb Ram soldered to mobo in 2022 make me sad 🙁

 

[geow65]

With every new Windows update, my laptop is getting slower. I should check for silent background bloatware, as mentioned.

Just closing the Edge on your computer may not completely close the browser. You need to kill the background process every time. Or use Command Prompt or Process Manager to kill the background application.

It is hard to go to process manager every time just to close the Edge background process even after we close it.

 

[Charlie98]

Interesting. I was fixing to post my own thread on, I believe, the same problem...

I'm still running W10 version 21H2. After the last batch of updates, all of a sudden my system will intermittently blow up and drag the system down...

It is not internet dependent... so I don't think it's transmitting data, but it happens fairly regularly. I did a search, and one article I read linked it to the Edge Updater, so I went into scheduled tasks and there were 2 tasks that once triggered, cycle every hour for the next 24 hours. I disabled those... but the System still does something.

I'll try the fix mentioned above and see what happens...