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Apr 3, 2019

Chrome starts automatically when I turn on the computer, without being launched

When I turn on my laptop (Dell Inspirion 5559 running Windows 10, 64-bit), it automatically starts Chrome, usually at a blank page, not my selected home page, without being launched from the task bar. I haven't put Chrome into the Start menu, but it does seem to automatically start up about a dozen Chrome-related tasks and extensions. Is there any way to turn this off?

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Oct 31, 2019

have you un-ticked "Continue running background apps when Google Chrome is closed" in settings?

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chrome://settings/?search=background

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Oct 11, 2019

Abhishek Rawat , please read

https://support.google.com/chrome/forum/AAAAP1KN0B0HhreZdhx-94/ and

https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/4027599/windows-10-automatically-finish-setting-up-pc-after-update-restart

See more details in https://www.tenforums.com/tutorials/49963-use-sign-info-auto-finish-after-update-restart-windows-10-a.html and https://www.thewindowsclub.com/automatically-launch-previously-open-apps-reboot-windows-10

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Black hat Baker

Nov 21, 2019

if you close each tab individually and not all at once, thats what seems to stop it for me.

Nov 22, 2019

This is what CCleaner finds: "HKCU:Run 0EF39F5CD2F93E2D49A90D9D56ACFA1B90BF26B7._service_run Google LLC "C:\Program Files (x86)\Google\Chrome\Application\chrome.exe" --type=service /prefetch:8", which means Chrome is running in the background at startup, despite my having told Chrome to stop running in the background when I close it.

If I close Google Chrome via Task Manager, it goes away completely and subsequent opening and closing of the app behaves as I want it to. So I've disabled it from the startup entries and that is how I think it should be. I don't need it to be there as a background task as soon as I've logged onto my PC and believe it shouldn't be on as a startup item by default.

There may be a flag within Chrome to stop this from happening but a bit more transparency from Google re this setting/behaviour would be beneficial. Google, please read this and act!

Jan 1, 2020

If you right-click on the Windows Start button on the taskbar, click Task Manager and click the app you don't want to appear on start-up and click Disable button.

If you don't see the Startup tab, click More details and click the app then follow the steps.

The status will say Disabled.

You're welcome. This works !

Last edited Jan 1, 2020

Jan 17, 2020

no this does not work. I checked startup and chrome is not listed in startup in both settings-> start up and when I do ctrl alt delete , task manager, startup. it is not listed so I can't take something off that is not listed

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